The former President Donald Trump‘s lawyer, Sidney Powell pleaded guilty in an election interference case in Georgia on Thursday, 19 October 2023. She was one of the 18 co-defendants in Trump’s election.

Sidney pleaded to six misdemeanour charges, this was reported to have been by the agreement read in court. The Court will grant her 12 months of probation for each count and a $6,000 fine.

Her plea comes a day before she was meant to go on trial with co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro.

Chesebro, Trump, Powell and 16 others pleaded not guilty in August to charges of indictment and alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential Election in the state of Georgia.

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Sidney Powell, a former Trump campaign attorney, admitted to plotting to unlawfully access secure election machines in rural Coffee County in south-eastern Georgia in January 2021.

She is the second defendant in the case to strike a plea agreement after Scott Hall took a plea deal in which he pleaded guilty to tampering with voting machine equipment.