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Professional-Trump lawyer Stefanie Lambert surrendered Thursday to Michigan authorities in connection together with her 2020 election tampering indictment, after a wild week the place she was labeled a fugitive and spent an evening in jail after being arrested in Washington, DC.
The particular prosecutor who charged Lambert in Michigan, DJ Hilson, confirmed that she turned herself in Thursday morning and appeared in Oakland County Circuit Courtroom.
“The decide dominated that the Michigan bench warrant is now put aside, and she or he was taken into custody for the only real goal of amassing her DNA and fingerprints,” Hilson stated.
Lambert’s legal professional, Daniel Hartman, additionally confirmed that she surrendered, as she pledged to do after being released by a local DC judge earlier this week. Hartman stated Lambert’s fingerprints is not going to be entered into the system “till additional order of the court docket.” Lambert has been combating an effort by prosecutors to take her fingerprints.
The give up got here days after Lambert’s arrest on the federal courthouse in DC. She was taken into custody Monday by US marshals instantly after she participated in a two-hour listening to in Dominion Voting Methods’ defamation case towards her shopper, ex-Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, relating to his false claims concerning the 2020 election.
That listening to within the DC-based defamation case was about Lambert’s latest leak of inner Dominion emails, which she obtained by her illustration of Byrne. However Lambert’s DC arrest, and her give up in Michigan on Thursday, have been on account of a warrant that was issued after she failed to seem at latest hearings in her prison case.
She was indicted last year in reference to an tried election system breach in Michigan, which was one in all a number of incidents in battleground states the place Donald Trump supporters tried to show their voter-fraud theories after he misplaced the 2020 election.