Georgia Prosecutor Is Offering Plea Deals To Trump Co-Defendants To Bag The 'Real Target,' Experts SayKatelynn Richardson
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October 21, 2023 3:42 PM ET
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis avoided the strategic disadvantage of having to preview her case against former President Donald Trump when two co-defendants accepted last-minute plea deals ahead of their scheduled trial this week, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Attorneys Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, the two co-defendants in Trump’s Georgia 2020 election case who requested speedy trials that were scheduled to start Monday, accepted plea deals on Thursday and Friday, respectively, halting a trial that would have allowed Trump’s defense team to see some of Willis’ evidence ahead of time. For Willis, who pushed hard to get all defendants tried on the same date, plea deals mean she won’t be forced to provide a “free look” next week at how she intends to try the case, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“She really wanted this upcoming trial in October to not happen because she did not want to reveal her playbook, so to speak, to the primary defendants: Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani and the others,” Georgia-based criminal defense attorney and legal analyst Philip Holloway told the DCNF.
“If there had been a trial of Kenneth Chesebro, it would have been the first time any prosecutor in the multiple cases against Trump has had to prove their case, rather than making allegations in an indictment,” Cornell Law School professor William A. Jacobson told the DCNF. “Such a trial would have signaled to the public how strong the evidence was against Trump, and also would have given the Trump defense a chance to preview the prosecution’s case against him.”
Now, Willis won’t be forced to lay her cards on the table quite so soon.
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