Fulton judge rejects revoking defendant’s bond for social media posts in 2020 election case | Plus

The former director of Black Voices for Trump Harrison William Floyd avoided jail on Tuesday after a Fulton County judge approved a temporary bond order that allows him to publicly comment on the 2020 presidential election racketeering case as long as he does not refer to witnesses or his remaining fourteen co-defendants.

The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office crafted the updated bond order for Floyd following a two-hour court hearing at which prosecutors argued that Floyd’s social media posts violated his bond agreement that prohibited him from communicating about co-defendants and potential witnesses in the high-profile case.

Instead of sending Floyd back to jail on Tuesday, Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ordered prosecutors and his attorneys to reach a consensus on the new terms of his bond order that will remain in place until 

According to McAfee, Floyd technically violated a bond agreement that prohibited him from communicating about witnesses and co-defendants.

McAfee, however,  said that Floyd’s comments on social media didn’t warrant sending him back to jail and instead called for more clarity about what Floyd’s allowed to say about the case on social media and in other public venues.

Floyd spent several days in Atlanta’s Rice Street jail in August after a grand jury indicted him on charges alleging that he, Donald Trump and 17 of their co-defendants illegally conspired to try to reverse Trump’s 2020 election loss to the Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Georgia and several other states.  

According to the new…