On Friday, bail bondsman Scott Hall, one of 18 co-defendants charged alongside former President Donald Trump on election interference charges in Georgia, pleaded guilty. Hall pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor charges of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with the performance of an election. He was sentenced to five years probation and agreed to testify in the court hearings of his co-defendants.

Here are key takeaways from Fulton County’s first hearing in the Georgia election subversion case Attorney Scott Grubman, defending Ken Chesebro, argues before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia on September 6, 2023. Jason Getz/Pool/Getty Images The trajectory of the sprawling trial in Fulton County, Georgia, of former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants became clear Wednesday in the first televised hearing on the case since charges were filed last month.

A Georgia bail bondsman is the first to plead guilty in the state’s criminal conspiracy case against former President Donald Trump and more than a dozen co-defendants. Scott Graham Hall, 59, was accused in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis‘ sweeping indictment of Trump and 18 others of plotting to subvert the 2020 election results in the Peach State. Hall was specifically alleged to have committed multiple felonies, including travelling to Coffee County, Georgia, “for the purpose of assisting with the unlawful breach of election equipment.” He was also accused...

Scott Hall, an Atlanta bail bondsman who is one of former President Donald Trump's 18 co-defendants in the Georgia 2020 election interference case, pleaded guilty Friday. He is the first defendant to take a plea deal. Hall, 59, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with performing election duties. Prosecutors had accused him of trying to steal sensitive information from Coffee County, Georgia. He pled down from felony charges of racketeering and six conspiracy counts.

The first guilty plea in the sprawling Georgia election interference could put prosecutors right inside Donald Trump's inner circle. Scott Hall, a 59-year-old bail bondsman who prosecutors say played a key role in the former president's to overturn his election loss, pleaded guilty Friday to five misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with the performance of election duties and agreed to testify in a case involving 18 other defendants. Hall agreed to serve five years of probation as part of the deal, and his could prove to be...

Scott Hall, one of 19 defendants in the Fulton County election interference case against former president Donald Trump and his allies, pleaded guilty Friday afternoon to five misdemeanor charges. Hall, a bail bondsman accused of entering the Coffee County elections office and illegally accessing voting equipment, is the first of the defendants to forge an agreement with the prosecution and enter a guilty plea, representing a win for District Attorney Fani Willis’ team. Hall admitted to five counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with the performance of an election....

Trump won't help the co-defendents who went all-in to help him, even at the point where helping them would seemingly improve his own chances of getting out from under the Georgia election interference charges. Scott Hall, one of 18 facing charges with the ex-president, has pleaded guilty to tampering with electronic voting machines in a deal that requires he testify against the bigger fish. Hall is the first person charged with Trump to plead guilty in the case, which alleges a widespread racketeering conspiracy to overturn Trump's 2020 electoral loss...

A bail bondsman charged alongside former President Donald Trump and 17 others in the Georgia election interference case pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges on Friday, becoming the first defendant to accept a plea deal with prosecutors. As part of the deal, Scott Graham Hall will receive five years of probation and agreed to testify in further proceedings. He was also ordered to write a letter of apology to the citizens of Georgia and is forbidden from participating in polling activities. Hall, 59, pleaded guilty to five counts of conspiracy to...

A Georgia bond bailsman, Hall was accused of participating in an effort to remove and tamper with election equipment. Scott Hall, one of the 19 co-defendants in a case over election interference in the state of Georgia, has pleaded guilty to five criminal counts as part of a deal with Fulton County prosecutors in the United States. He becomes the first to plead guilty in the wide-ranging case, which alleges that former President Donald Trump and allies engaged in a “criminal enterprise” to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential...

A bail bond business owner charged along with former President Donald Trump in a sweeping Georgia election-interference case pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges on Friday, becoming the first of Trump’s 18 co-defendants to strike a deal with prosecutors. The deal prosecutors cut with Scott Hall, who had previously pleaded not guilty to racketeering and other criminal charges, could help Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis bolster her case against the other defendants, who include Trump-aligned lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.