Former US President Donald Trump asked the Georgia court on Thursday to separate his case, where he is accused of trying to illegally annul the results of the 2020 elections, from that of the other 18 defendants.
The former president’s lawyers (2017-2021) filed a brief in the Fulton District Court (Georgia) in which they request that Trump’s case be separated from that of the rest of the defendants, who requested a speedy trial.
This request comes after, on Tuesday, the prosecutor in charge of the case, Fani Willis, asked that they all be tried at the same time.
The court has not yet decided whether or not to approve Willis’s proposal, which would mean that the trial would begin on October 23, since Judge Scott McAfee has already ruled that that will be the date to start the case against one of the defendants. . attorney Kenneth Chesebro.
In the opinion of Trump’s lawyers, this date does not give the former president enough time to prepare his defense.
“It takes less than two months to prepare to defend a 98-page indictment, with 19 defendants, with 41 miscellaneous counts, including one of conspiracy. [da lei] RICO (…) would violate President Trump’s federal and state constitutional rights to a fair trial and due process of law,” the lawyers said in a document released by The Hill newspaper.
Trump pleaded not guilty this Thursday to the 13 charges against him in Georgia for trying to manipulate the results of the 2020 elections in that state, in which he lost by a narrow margin to the Democrat and current president Joe Biden.
The former president also waived “freely and voluntarily” his right to be present at the indictment ceremony before the court, scheduled for September 6.
Trump, who is aspiring to the Republican Party’s nomination for the 2024 presidential elections, has already pleaded not guilty in the other three criminal cases against him in Washington, Florida and New York.
Judge McAfee told the local Atlanta News First on Thursday that the court case in Georgia will be broadcast online on the YouTube platform.
For this case, Trump traveled to Georgia to turn himself in at the Fulton County jail, where he became the first former president to have a court photograph taken, but has only recently pleaded not guilty.
The case, brought under Georgia’s Corrupt Organizations Act, is a long process whose logistics at trial will likely be complicated and involve many witnesses from all parties.
Trump, who appears in the polls as the favorite for the Republican Party primaries, sees these lawsuits as a politically motivated attempt to prevent him from returning to the White Caste.
Source: TSF
