Which specific felony counts in the Trump indictments were overturned and in which courts?
Executive summary
Several felony counts against Donald Trump were removed or dismissed across the Georgia and federal cases: Georgia Judge Scott McAfee struck three Georgia counts on March 13, 2024, and two additional Georgia counts on September 12, 2024; later the remaining Georgia charges were dismissed on November 26, 2025 [1] [2]. Federal special counsel Jack Smith’s two criminal prosecutions were dropped after Trump’s 2024 election victory under DOJ policy against indicting a sitting president [3] [4].
1. What was actually overturned in Georgia — count numbers and courts
In Fulton County, Georgia, Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled in stages to remove specific counts from the August 2023 state racketeering indictment. On March 13, 2024, McAfee struck three charges for lack of specificity; on September 12, 2024, he dismissed two more counts on Supremacy Clause grounds; and ultimately the remaining charges in that Georgia indictment were dismissed on November 26, 2025 after Pete Skandalakis, the successor prosecutor, concluded the case could not realistically compel a sitting president to appear for trial [1] [2] [5]. Ballotpedia and the aggregated timeline in Wikipedia document these rulings and the final dismissal [1] [2].
2. Which felony counts were struck — how reporting identifies them
Mainstream reporting and case guides list the Georgia counts by number when noting the March and September rulings: McAfee struck three counts in March and specifically removed Counts 14, 15 and 27 in September, according to Ballotpedia’s timeline and allied summaries [1]. PBS’s FRONTLINE guide likewise records that three solicitation-of-public-officers counts were thrown out on March 13, 2024 and two counts alleging conspiracy to commit forgery and filing false documents were dismissed on Sept. 12, 2024 [6]. Those sources identify the legal bases McAfee used — lack of specificity and Supremacy Clause concerns — rather than disputing the underlying facts of the allegations [1] [6].
3. Federal dismissals and the role of DOJ policy
Two federal prosecutions brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith — the classified-documents case and the Jan. 6 election-interference case — were dropped after Trump won the 2024 presidential election. Multiple outlets and legal summaries explain that longstanding DOJ policy discourages indicting a sitting president, and Smith’s teams dismissed the federal charges in light of that policy and Trump’s new status as president [3] [4]. Reporting frames these dismissals as prosecutorial decisions tied to institutional rule-of-law questions, not judicial reversals of convictions [3] [4].
4. What the New York case shows about felonies being overturned (and what it does not)
In contrast to Georgia and the federal cases, the Manhattan prosecution resulted in convictions: Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in May 2024 and later received an unconditional discharge in January 2025 [5] [7]. Available sources do not report those New York felony convictions being overturned by a court as of the cited material; they do record appeals and ongoing legal maneuvering but not a judicial reversal in the sources provided [5] [7] [8].
5. Competing perspectives and implicit agendas in the reporting
Sources agree on the procedural outcomes but frame them differently. Local Georgia reporting and legal guides emphasize judicial gatekeeping and constitutional objections used by Judge McAfee [1] [6]. National outlets and legal analysts stress DOJ policy limits on prosecuting a sitting president to explain why federal charges were dropped [3] [4]. Political actors on all sides have incentives — prosecutors wishing to defend independent enforcement, defense teams highlighting immunity and policy constraints, and partisans using dismissals or convictions to advance narratives — and the sources document those competing agendas without resolving them [3] [4] [6].
6. Limits of available reporting and unanswered questions
The provided sources identify which Georgia counts were struck (three in March, two in September, Counts 14/15/27 named in one timeline) and state that federal cases were dropped following the election, but they do not provide complete transcripts of McAfee’s rulings or a catalog of the exact statutory labels for every count removed [1] [6]. Available sources do not mention any federal court ever formally overturning felony convictions in these matters; they do not describe judicial reversal of the Manhattan convictions in the material supplied [5] [8].