DA seeks March 4 trial date for Trump Georgia election case

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Source: CNBC

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Wednesday proposed a March 4 trial date for her case accusing former President Donald Trump and others of trying to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results. Willis also suggested that Trump and the 18 other defendants in the state-level election interference case should be arraigned during the week of Sept. 5, a court filing showed.

The Atlanta-area prosecutor had previously given the defendants until noon on Aug. 25 to voluntarily surrender to Georgia authorities. Trump is likely to challenge the timeline sketched out by Willis’ office. In his other active criminal cases, Trump’s attorneys have advocated for delaying the trials until after the 2024 presidential election.

So far, they have not been successful. Trump’s criminal trial in New York, on charges of falsifying business records related to hush money payments, is set for March 25. A federal judge in Florida, meanwhile, set a May 20 trial date in special counsel Jack Smith’s case accusing Trump of mishandling classified records.

In a separate federal case charging Trump with election-related crimes, Smith’s office has proposed a Jan. 2 trial start.


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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Wednesday proposed a March 4 trial date for her case accusing former President Donald Trump and others of trying to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results.

Willis also suggested that Trump and the 18 other defendants in the state-level election interference case should be arraigned during the week of Sept. 5, a court filing showed.

The Atlanta-area prosecutor had previously given the defendants until noon on Aug. 25 to voluntarily surrender to Georgia authorities.


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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Wednesday proposed a March 4 trial date for her case accusing former President Donald Trump and others of trying to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results.


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[2naSalit]

1. Sounds good.

Something exciting to break up the winter doldrums!

[BumRushDaShow]

2. That may run into Bragg's trial

which is scheduled for March 25, 2024.

But I am thinking she would be doing groups of the other 18 (or whoever is left that didn't flip or plead guilty before then) and save him for last.

[RobertDevereaux]

3. Bragg has said he will move his date to defer to the bigger cases.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Well since Fani has 19 people to do

her sets of trials will be going on longer than anyone's (again unless there are guilty pleas or plea bargaining among the "lesser 18" - like some of the fake electors who refused to flip and the 2 who did the shake-down of Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss). We know #1 will do no such.

The hardest case to schedule and execute would be Smith's classified docs one.