Shortly before Emily Kohrs, the foreperson on the Georgia grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, embarked upon a much-criticized media tour in which she described details of the of the panel's work, the Georgia state judge overseeing the proceedings had called her and the other jurors to his chambers.
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“The oath they took is very clear, pretty narrow,” McBurney, who presided over the special grand jury, said in a recent interview with Yahoo News. “They cannot talk about their deliberations … and so it would be inappropriate for them to talk about the processing they went through; What did you think about so and so's testimony? Well, that's really part of your deliberations.”
Bowing to the request of Fulton District Attorney Fani Willis not to jeopardize the rights of future defendants, McBurney released three sections of the special grand jury report last week, including passages in which the grand jurors said they believed"one or more witnesses" had perjured themselves. But heMcBurney’s comments to Yahoo News shed new light on the controversy that unfolded this week when Kohrs, 30, gave multiple press interviews that went further than McBurney’s release.
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