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TexasTowelie

(116,554 posts)
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 08:20 PM Jan 2017

A Trump supporter was charged with voting twice. Her lawyer says she shouldn't stand trial.

A woman who was arrested after voting twice for Donald Trump - and in the process becoming a flash point in the voter fraud debate - is incompetent to stand trial, her attorney said in a motion filed in Iowa court.

Terri Lynn Rote, 56, was accused in late October of casting two ballots in the general election: an early-voting ballot at the Polk County Election Office and another at a county satellite voting location, according to police records. Rote, a registered Republican, remains charged with first-degree election misconduct, and her felony case has been winding through Iowa courts.

But her court-appointed attorney, Jane White, filed a motion last week saying Rote has "cognitive limitations" and can't stay focused for long periods - things that mean she wouldn't be able to help prepare her defense, according to the Des Moines Register.

"It is unlikely that Defendant can assist in her defense or participate in the trial process," White wrote. "It is unknown if the Defendant has been diagnosed previously with a mental health disorder, but her interactions with counsel indicate to counsel that this may be the case."

Read more: http://www.normantranscript.com/cnhi_network/a-trump-supporter-was-charged-with-voting-twice-her-lawyer/article_47415ef2-9611-598f-8510-ad8f8356afd8.html

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A Trump supporter was charged with voting twice. Her lawyer says she shouldn't stand trial. (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2017 OP
Legal language for: guillaumeb Jan 2017 #1
probably got that way from watching FUX Snooze rurallib Jan 2017 #2
LOCK HER UP. slumcamper Jan 2017 #3

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)
1. Legal language for:
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 08:23 PM
Jan 2017

My client is an idiot who broke the law and I cannot think of any way to win this case except by making up a mental situation that sounds better than admitting she is guilty.

rurallib

(63,159 posts)
2. probably got that way from watching FUX Snooze
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 08:26 PM
Jan 2017

If it was a democrat I could almost hear Republicans screaming "we have to make an example of her!"

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