The newly assigned DA declined to pursue the case. Trump’s defense attorney in Georgia, Steve Sadow, said that they will be “moving for attorney’s fees and costs.” Sadow cited a section of Georgia law, GA Code §17-11-6, which gives state criminal defendants the right to recover legal fees on dismissed cases when the prosecutor is “disqualified due to improper conduct on the part of such prosecuting attorney.”
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“My expectation is that for President Trump, the amount of attorneys’ fees and costs could run close to $5 million,” he told Atlanta news outlet 11Alive.
Including the fees for Trump’s co-defendants, Georgia taxpayers could be on the hook for as much as $10 million. Sadow maintained that the money would come from the existing budget of the Fulton County district attorney’s office, with no additional costs to taxpayers.