PHOENIX — Attorney General Kris Mayes is dropping the criminal charges against the “fake electors” and their allies — for now.
In a new court filing, Nicholas Klingerman who heads the agency’s criminal division, said there is no way he could start a new grand jury probe by June 19. That’s the date set by the Arizona Supreme Court that Mayes was given to either refile the case or have it dismissed entirely after the justices upheld lower court rulings that the original indictment was flawed because grand jurors were not given all the information they needed to decide whether a crime had been committed.
Mayes continues to insist she wants to pursue the case. So the only option left to her — given what she said is her inability to convene a new grand jury by the deadline — was to ask Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sam Myers to dismiss the case “without prejudice,” a method that legally would allow her to refile the charges when she is ready.
