NEW YORK: A local court in Georgia has dismissed a case, plagued by a prosecutorial scandal, against US President Donald Trump, charging him with conspiracy to overturn the state's 2020 election results, which he lost.
Judge Scott McAfee dismissed the case on Wednesday (local time) after the prosecutor who took over the case, Peter Skandalakis, acknowledged he could not proceed with the case filed in 2023.
The case suffered a setback when local prosecutor Fani Willis, who brought the case in a Fulton County court, was removed from the case amid allegations involving her affair with a lawyer she appointed to help with the case.
Skandalakis, who is the executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia, took over the case himself when no other prosecutor agreed to the task.