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In Georgia Case Against Trump, a Trial as Soon as March Could Be a Stretch [1]
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Date: 2023-08-16
Fani T. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., said on Monday that she hoped her criminal racketeering case against former President Donald J. Trump and his allies could go to trial in about six months. On Wednesday, her office filed a motion seeking a March 4 start date.
But racketeering cases are not built for speed. Just getting this one together has taken two and a half years. The effort to proceed to trial quickly in Georgia will almost certainly be complicated by the schedules of three other criminal cases that Mr. Trump is already facing in Florida, New York and Washington, D.C.
And with 19 defendants represented by a fleet of attorneys, a number of experts on Tuesday didn’t expect a smooth path forward and raised the possibility that the case could potentially take years, rather than months, to lumber toward a conclusion. One defendant, Mark Meadows, Mr. Trump’s former chief of staff, has already filed a motion to move the case to federal court.
On Wednesday, the judge overseeing Mr. Meadow’s removal effort gave Ms. Willis’s office until Aug. 23 to respond to his motion, and set an evidentiary hearing for Aug. 28.
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