ATLANTA (AP) — A bail bondsman charged alongside former President Donald Trump and 17 others has become the first defendant in the Georgia election interference case to accept a plea deal with prosecutors. Scott Hall pleaded guilty in court on Friday to five counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with performance of election duties, all misdemeanors. Prosecutors had accused him of participating in a breach of election equipment in rural Coffee County. He will receive five years of probation and agreed to testify in further proceedings as part of...

Scott Hall, the former Fulton County Republican poll watcher and bail bondsman, became the first of Donald Trump’s 18 co-defendants to take a plea agreement with Fulton County prosecutors in their sprawling racketeering case. Hall was charged for his connection to the breach of voting systems in Coffee County.

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(CNN) — One of former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants has pleaded guilty to five counts in the 2020 election subversion case in Georgia. Bail bondsman Scott Hall, 59, is the first defendant in the case brought by the Fulton County district attorney’s office to take a plea agreement with prosecutors. Hall was accused of conspiring to unlawfully access voter data and ballot counting machines at the Coffee County election office on January 7, 2021. He spent hours inside a restricted area of the election office when voting systems were breached,...

When Donald Trump was indicted in Fulton County, it was a dramatic development, but the former president wasn’t the only one charged in the election interference case. On the contrary, the Republican was one of 19 co-defendants. As the cases have proceeded, the entire list of those charged were pleading not guilty. Today, as NBC News reported, that changed. It’s probably fair to say that Hall does not have a household name, but as the original Fulton County indictment made clear, he’s a local bail bondsman. As The Atlanta Journal-Constitution...

A co-defendant in the sweeping Georgia election interference case involving former President Trump has become the first to plead guilty to his charges in the case. Scott Hall, a bail bond business owner, pleaded guilty before Judge Scott McAfee on Friday afternoon after reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors. “You understand that you’re pleading guilty today because you believe there exists a factual basis that supports the plea, and you are pleading guilty because you are, in fact, guilty?” McAfee asked after Hall entered his plea. He was reportedly among...

ATLANTA — Scott Hall, one of the 18 defendants charged along with former President Donald Trump for allegedly interfering with the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia, pleaded guilty to the charges against him Friday. Hall is the first defendant to enter a plea in the case. Under the terms of an agreement with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's office, Hall pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit election fraud, conspiracy to commit computer theft, conspiracy to commit computer trespass, conspiracy to commit computer invasion of privacy,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Republican poll watcher Scott Hall on Friday pleaded guilty to five criminal counts in the Georgia elections case, according to a live feed of a court hearing.

Hall and 18 others, including former U.S. President Donald Trump, were indicted in Fulton County, Georgia, last month with conspiring to reverse Trump's 2020 presidential election loss in the state.Hall and former Trump lawyer John Eastman were the first of former President Donald Trump's co-defendants to surrender at an Atlanta jail on Aug. 22.