Two defendants are set for trial next month, but the former president and others charged are headed for separate trials later.

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Georgia will likely run into more problems like this. Their RICO case against Trump and his gang of bandits is massive, involving 19 defendants charged with racketeering, 41 predicate offences split across the 19 defendants in order to prove they were involved in racketeering. Not every predicate offence involves every defendant. Most of these predicate offenses involved many more people than the 19 defendants and happened entirely outside of Georgia. Several of the predicate offenses focus on speech and political activities which is going to be incredibly difficult to argue isn’t protected by the first amendment.

    This case is massive and messy which means it’ll probably be a very long time until it ends.