Officials in Fulton County, Georgia, say the apparent court document that appeared on the county clerk's website on Monday, hours before a grand jury voted to indict former President Donald Trump and 18 others, was a test that was not supposed to go public.

The Fulton County clerk's office claimed the "fictitious" document, which was uploaded ahead of the actual indictment that was handed down hours later, was "unofficial and a test sample only," in a press release on Tuesday.

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"In anticipation of issues that arise with entering a potentially large indictment, Alexander used charges that pre-exist in Odyssey to test the system and conduct a trial run. Unfortunately, the sample working document led to the docketing of what appeared to be an indictment, but which was, in fact, only a fictitious docket sheet," the clerk's office said in a statement.

"Because the media has access to documents before they are published, and while it may have appeared that something official had occurred because the document bore a case number and filing date, it did not include a signed 'true' or 'no' bill nor an official stamp with Clerk Alexander’s name, thereby making the document unofficial and a test sample only," the statement continued.

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