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Judge Publishes Parts of Fulton County Special Purpose Grand Jury's Final Report

Anna Bower, Hyemin Han
Thursday, February 16, 2023, 10:47 AM

The partial release includes concerns that some unnamed witnesses may have lied under oath during their testimony.

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On Feb. 16, Judge Robert C.I. McBurney of the Superior Court of Fulton County released parts of a special purpose grand jury’s final report examining possible criminal interference in the 2020 election in Georgia.

The partial release includes the report’s introduction, conclusion, and Section VIII, in which the grand jury expresses its concerns that some unnamed witnesses may have lied under oath during their testimony.

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Anna Bower is Lawfare’s Legal Fellow and Courts Correspondent. Anna holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Cambridge and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School. She joined Lawfare as a recipient of Harvard’s Sumner M. Redstone Fellowship in Public Service. Prior to law school, Anna worked as a judicial assistant for a Superior Court judge in the Northeastern Judicial Circuit of Georgia. She also previously worked as a Fulbright Fellow at Anadolu University in Eskişehir, Turkey. A native of Georgia, Anna is based in Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
Hyemin Han is an associate editor of Lawfare and is based in Washington, D.C. Previously, she worked in eviction defense and has interned on Capitol Hill and with the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. She holds a BA in government from Dartmouth College, where she was editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth independent daily.