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The Attorney General’s Flint water prosecution team appeared to grudgingly accept defeat Wednesday as the Michigan Supreme Court declined to hear appeals challenging the dismissal of criminal charges against seven former state officials.

With Friday's not-guilty verdicts in the cases of three alleged Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping conspirators, the first round of judicial action against the 14 charged men is complete. Federal and state prosecutors recorded four plea deals, five convictions following trials and five acquittals.

Three men and their family members cried as the jury foreperson announced Friday that each defendant was not guilty of providing material support to a terrorist act in connection with the plot to kidnap and kill Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

An attorney for one of the 16 GOP would-be 2020 electors said his client acted “at the direction” of former President Donald Trump and other federal officers.

A déjà vu feeling permeated the trial Wednesday of three men accused of providing support to the 2020 plot to kidnap the Governor as one defense attorney spent the morning criticizing the prosecution.