- November 8, 2024
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Attorneys for former elections supervisor Kimberle Weeks have managed to get three of the 12 felony counts against her dismissed. Now, they may try to nix the rest of them, too.
Weeks is charged with surreptitiously audio-recording conversations with officials and others.
An Aug. 19 pretrial for Weeks lasted less than 10 minutes — Weeks herself did not attend — and led only to the scheduling of another pretrial, this time for her lawyer, Dean Bartzokis, to present the case that more charges against her should be dismissed.
Bartzokis told Circuit Judge Margaret Hudson that he was working on a motion to dismiss additional counts, and that the motions would be finished some time next week, and would probably be 10-15 pages long and cite specific case law.
Hudson asked him if the motions would target all of the remaining nine felony counts against Weeks.
“It may be all of the other counts, your honor,” Bartzokis said. “That’s still something we’re trying to figure out based on the case law.”
Bartzokis was also working on a motion to suppress a search warrant that the FDLE had used to search Weeks’ office during her time as elections supervisor. But, he said, he hoped the motions to dismiss “will overshadow that to a significant amount.”
The next pretrial hearing for Weeks will be at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 18 at the county courthouse.
