Trump Georgia election co-defendants Chesebro, Powell to be tried collectively
Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport after surrendering on the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Aug. 24, 2023.
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An Atlanta choose on Wednesday rejected a movement for separate trials for 2 co-defendants of Donald Trump, in a case the place they’re accused with the previous president and 16 others of a prison conspiracy in attempting to reverse Trump’s loss within the 2020 election in Georgia.
Decide Scott McAfee stated that as of now, he plans to start out trial for Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell on Oct. 23. Each defendants, who had requested speedy trials of their circumstances, are attorneys.
McAfee left open the door — barely — to grant a request by prosecutors to carry a joint trial for Trump and the 18 co-defendants within the case.
“It sounds just like the state continues to be sticking to the place that each one these defendants ought to stay and so they need to deal with a few of these removing points,” McAfee stated throughout a listening to in Fulton County Superior Courtroom.
“I am prepared to listen to that. I stay very skeptical,” the choose stated as he gave the Fulton County District Lawyer’s Workplace time to submit a authorized transient justifying the joint trial.
“However … I am prepared to listen to what you must say on it.”
Earlier within the listening to, a prosecutor advised McAfee that holding a joint trial for Trump and the opposite defendants would take 4 months to finish, with testimony from doubtlessly greater than 150 witnesses.
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Attorneys for Chesebro and Powell had requested for separate trials for them by arguing that their alleged conduct that led to the prison trials was not linked to one another.
Trump is individually charged in federal court docket in Washington with crimes associated to his effort to reverse President Joe Biden’s win within the nationwide presidential election in 2020.
5 different defendants within the Georgia case moreover Chesebro and Powell have filed motions asking McAfee to sever their trials from these of co-defendants.
A number of defendants have requested that their circumstances be transferred to federal district court docket in Georgia, amongst them former Trump White Home chief of employees Mark Meadows.
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