2023-08-16 22:39:15
The prosecutor in charge of the case for which former President Donald Trump has been charged in Georgia, Fani Willis, proposed this Wednesday to the court that The trial will start on March 4, 2024 and he suggested that the reading of the charges against the 19 defendants be on September 5.
“In light of Trump’s other criminal and civil matters,” Willis explains in a brief sent to the court, “the state of Georgia proposes certain timelines that do not conflict with the already scheduled hearings and trials of these other courts.” .
The proposed dates were requested “to allow the defendants to review the evidence and prepare for trial.” and also “to protect the interest of the State of Georgia and the public in a prompt resolution of the charges on which the defendants have been indicted.”
Last Monday, a Georgia grand jury indicted former President Trump (2017-2021) for allegedly try to manipulate the results of the 2020 elections in that state, where the Democrat Joe Biden he won by a narrow margin.
Trump was charged along with 18 other people. Among those charged are his former personal lawyer and former New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani, and his former chief of staff Mark Meadows.
A grand jury indicts Trump and 18 others for trying to interfere in the 2020 Georgia election
In his fourth indictment, the former president faces 13 charges, the main one, that of violating Georgia’s law against corrupt organizations which, if confirmed, requires a prison sentence to be served.
Although the dates are not closed, the first trial that could be held is the Washington D.C. for his alleged interference in the 2020 elections, in the case that directly relates him to the assault on the Capitol.
Special counsel Jack Smith called last week for the process to begin on January 2, 2024, just days away from the three-year anniversary of the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
That day, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the headquarters of Congress while a joint session of the chambers was being held to ratify Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
In NYTrump has been indicted on 34 counts for alleged payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels, with whom he had an affair in the past, to buy her silence during the 2016 election campaign. The trial is expected to begin in March 2024.
The other criminal case -whose trial could begin in May 2024- is in Floridawhere he is accused of 40 counts of illegally removing and keeping in his Mar-a-Lago mansion classified documents that he took from the White House.
Trump, the first criminally accused former president in US history, faces these processes in the midst of the race to the White House in 2024, as the favorite candidate of the Republican Party.
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