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FarPoint

(12,519 posts)
Tue Aug 15, 2023, 07:09 AM Aug 2023

The Georgia indictments: Will each defendant have their own, separate trial?

The Georgia indictments are broad and sweeping with multiple individuals being indited...We know Jack Smith kept his indictments closed and with a tRump primary and others are to follow with J-6 with their own trial..

So, help me see the big picture with Georgia's mega indictments and defendants...

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TexasTowelie

(113,032 posts)
2. The DA said that she wants to try all of them together.
Tue Aug 15, 2023, 07:19 AM
Aug 2023

I think that some of the 19 defendants will arrive at plea deals prior to the trial and become witnesses so that we are down to about a half-dozen other defendants besides Trump. Pity the fools that decide to take their chances and go to trial.

Irish_Dem

(48,999 posts)
4. Thanks, so she hopes to flip some of them which will narrow down the number of defendants.
Tue Aug 15, 2023, 07:22 AM
Aug 2023

Ha, maybe down to just Trump.

TexasTowelie

(113,032 posts)
6. They say that confession is good for the soul.
Tue Aug 15, 2023, 07:31 AM
Aug 2023

It might take that and a few hundred Hail Mary's to make penance though (and that comes from a Southern Baptist).

Irish_Dem

(48,999 posts)
8. There are not enough Hail Mary's in the world to absolve them of all their sins.
Tue Aug 15, 2023, 07:37 AM
Aug 2023

Trying to destroy the greatest democracy in the history of the world.

They need to go directly to hell, do not pass go.

ecstatic

(32,843 posts)
10. Definitely because there is no probation. Time must be served
Tue Aug 15, 2023, 07:41 AM
Aug 2023

in prison. And kemp can't pardon them. Nor can a US president.

FarPoint

(12,519 posts)
16. I see....
Tue Aug 15, 2023, 06:16 PM
Aug 2023

apparently she has her experience on RICO cases...big ones and this is her style....

Sorry being late to respond to post...I've just got home...a long 12 hour day...glad to relax here for a while.

kentuck

(111,111 posts)
7. I heard some "expert" on TV say that they would be tried as one on the RICO charges.
Tue Aug 15, 2023, 07:33 AM
Aug 2023

If they have more than one charge against them, I do not know how they would handle that?

Model35mech

(1,647 posts)
11. Some charges of furthering the criminal enterprise aren't crimes without context
Tue Aug 15, 2023, 07:42 AM
Aug 2023

the actions taken by those persons involve otherwise legal behavior.

Trying them together helps keeps in one piece that all important context of why they are criminal

Vinca

(50,360 posts)
9. I've got another trial question if any lawyers on board want to weigh in. Some of the
Tue Aug 15, 2023, 07:39 AM
Aug 2023

talking head chatter has been about Trump getting the trial moved from the state court in Georgia to a federal court. How can that happen that state charges would be heard in a federal court?

marble falls

(58,084 posts)
13. There will be hearings and motions about that, but in that they're accused of acting in concert ...
Tue Aug 15, 2023, 09:24 AM
Aug 2023

... they're probably going down together.

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