Kay Godwin of Blackshear, long-time Republican activist, has been informed she could face criminal charges in connection with the Fulton County Grand Jury’s investigation into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Godwin was listed along with 10 others including state Sen. Burt Jones, the GOP nominee for lieutenant governor, and Georgia GOP chair David Shafer received letters from Fulton County prosecutors notifying them they could be prosecuted.
Godwin was one of 16 Georgia Republican electors who met at the state Capitol December 14, 2020, the same day a slate of Democratic electors met there to cast their Electoral College votes for Democrat Joe Biden, who had carried Georgia in the presidential election the month before.
At the time, Republican Party officials said they picked their own Electoral College members because Trump’s lawsuit challenging the election results was still pending.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s office informed the 11 they were “target(s)” of the investigation.
The 11 had previously been voluntarily cooperating with the investigation as witnesses.
Attorneys Holly Pierson and Kimberly Bourroughs Debrow are representing Godwin and the other electors.
Pierson and Debrow filed a response in court last week and said 11 of the electors “reluctantly” invoked their 5th Amendment rights after receiving the target letters.
“The abrupt, unsupportable and public elevation of all 11 nominee electors’ status wrongfully converted them from witnesses who were cooperating voluntarily and prepared to testify in the Grand Jury to persecuted targets of it,” the motion stated.
Efforts to reach Godwin for comment were unsuccessful.
Dave Williams and Rebecca Grapevine of the Capitol Beat News Service contributed to this report.
