Mark Martin — a law school dean who advised former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and taught seminars with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito after January 6 — does not make a personal appearance in new evidence filed against Trump last week in one of his federal criminal cases.

But special counsel Jack Smith’s 165-page brief includes a number of unindicted characters with ties to Martin, and at key moments, Martin was right there alongside them, records from the House Select Committee on January 6 and other sources show.

(As with previous articles, Martin and High Point University in North Carolina, where he is the inaugural law school dean, did not respond to questions.)

The connections start with Martin’s one-on-one chats with Trump himself after the 2020 election, including on the evening of January 6, 2021, when the president called Martin for a nine-minute discussion. Neither has ever divulged what they talked about, but Martin was one of a select few lawyers Trump spoke with that evening — including Rudy Giuliani, who appears throughout Smith’s brief as “CC1” for Co-Conspirator 1, and Cleta Mitchell, aka “P31” for “Person 31,” who was part of Trump’s infamous call with Georgia’s secretary of state a few days before the insurrection. (Mitchell later told the January 6 committee that she didn’t recognize Martin’s name.)

Next is John Eastman (aka “CC2”), who is identifiable based on references to the various court cases in which he represented Trump. One of these cases, Texas v. Pennsylvania, was Martin’s “brainchild,” according to another attorney,........

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