Eastman Preliminarily Found Culpable in California Bar Trial (1)

Nov. 2, 2023, 11:41 PM UTCUpdated: Nov. 3, 2023, 2:03 AM UTC

A California State Bar Court judge on Thursday preliminarily found Trump attorney John Eastman culpable in the 11-count trial on moral and legal violations for allegedly conspiring to invalidate the 2020 presidential election.

After 32 days of testimony, Judge Yvette Roland made “a preliminary finding of culpability,” saying the case will “move forward with not only rebuttal testimony but aggravation.”

Earlier Thursday, Eastman asserted his First Amendment right to speak out as a private citizen and not as counsel to Donald Trump in remarks he made to the rally ahead of the Jan. 6 raid on the US Capitol.

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