Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has requested a March 4, 2024, trial start date for former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants, which would place the proceedings roughly one week prior to the Republican primary in the Peach State. …
“In light of Defendant Donald John Trump’s other criminal and civil matters pending in the courts of our sister sovereigns, the State of Georgia proposes certain deadlines that do not conflict with these other courts’ already-scheduled hearings and trial dates,” she wrote in a legal filing.
She hopes to try all 19 defendants at once.
[You can wish in one hand and **** in the other and see which one fills up first. There is no way a prosecutor could get a trial underway in six months for a RICO case involving 19 defendants at the same time. It’s sheer idiocy to propose that as a trial date, and the timing is so rankly political that it makes the whole effort smell worse than it already does. Alan Dershowitz has more on that today, which I linked in my earlier post too. Adam Baldwin and I discuss it briefly in tomorrow’s Amiable episode as well. — Ed]
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