A Fulton County Superior Court Judge on Thursday set an Oct. 23 trial date for one of the 19 defendants in Georgia’s sweeping election subversion case.
In a day of fast-moving developments, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis proposed the new, aggressive start date for the 41-count racketeering trial in response to Kenneth Chesebro’s motion seeking a speedy trial. Judge Scott McAfee weighed in a few hours later setting the trial date Willis wanted but ruling it would apply only to Chesebro, a Trump-affiliated attorney who was indicted for his work helping assemble a slate of “alternate” Republican electors in Georgia.
Chesebro bet that Willis wouldn't go for an early trial date, a bet that he lost. So now he gets to go to trial, on his lonesome. Thanks to Chesebro, Willis gets a free training run at her trial strategy against a guy who has basically admitted, in his memo, that his fake-electors idea was not legal.
There is a legal term of art for conduct that is not legal: A crime. Most people who contemplate doing a crime are not so stupid as to memorialize their dastardly plan in a fucking memo. The boss of this criminal enterprise would not be so dumb.
If Chesebro is convicted, that will put a lot of pressure on the TOFF's co-conspirators. For the old rule is that the first to flip gets the best deal.
It does, however, give the TOFF’s lawyers a good look at the Government case, and perhaps possible lines of questioning to research/investigate.
ReplyDeleteThe horse isn't in the barn yet. The discovery should be rather limited for this defendant.
ReplyDeleteIn game theory, what is the size of his chip stack compared to the others? Pretty much everyone that matters has their own set of lawyers...