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handle is hein.crs/govemkv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional R fesearch Service Overview of the Indictment of Former President Trump Related to the 2020 Election August 3, 2023 On August 1, 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith announced that former President Trump had been indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia. The four-count indictment alleges that the former President participated in several criminal conspiracies: A conspiracy to defraud the United States by using dishonesty, fraud, and deceit to impair, obstruct, and defeat the lawful federal government function by which the results of the presidential election are collected, counted, and certified by the federal government, in violation of 18 U.S.C. @ 371; A conspiracy to corruptly obstruct and impede the January 6 congressional proceeding at which the collected results of the presidential election are counted and certified ... in violation of 18 U.S.C. @ 1512(k); and A conspiracy against the right to vote and to have one's vote counted, in violation of 18 U.S.C. @ 241. The indictment also alleges that the former President attempted to, and did, corruptly obstruct and impede ... the certification of the electoral vote in violation of 18 U.S.C. @@ 2 and 1512(c)(2). This is the third criminal indictment of former President Trump. It follows a state indictment connected to an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office into alleged payments made during the final weeks of the 2016 presidential election, and a separate federal indictment stemming from a federal grand jury investigation in Florida related to the alleged unlawful retention of national security information (discussed in this CRS product). This Legal Sidebar provides an overview of the August 1, 2023, indictment (the Indictment), describing general indictment procedures before summarizing the federal statutes included in the Indictment. Legal Background on Indictments With some exceptions, the Fifth Amendment and Rule 7 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure require an indictment to prosecute someone for a federal felony (that is, an offense punishable by more than one year of imprisonment). Indictments are formal charges obtained via a grand jury, a group of citizens summoned by a court to determine-generally, in secret-whether enough evidence exists to Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov LSB11016 CR3 Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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