Former Trump lawyer John Eastman pleaded not guilty in Phoenix on Friday to charges related to his alleged participation in a “conspiracy” to overturn the 2020 election “results” in Arizona.
A grand jury in Arizona issued indictments last month, charging Eastman and over a dozen other Trump allies for their roles in efforts to overturn the 2020 election ‘results’.
Although Trump himself is not among those charged in Arizona, details in the indictment indicate that he is referred to as “Unindicted Coconspirator 1.”
Eastman was released from custody without conditions. He is the first defendant charged in the Arizona case to appear in court, with others scheduled to follow suit in the coming weeks. Among them are Trump’s former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, former attorney Rudy Giuliani, close aide Boris Epshteyn, and Christina Bobb, the top lawyer on election integrity for the Republican National Committee.
Each defendant is expected to undergo fingerprinting and have a mugshot taken as part of the processing procedure, according to a source familiar with the matter cited by CNN.
