{"id":2003019,"date":"2023-08-16T19:56:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T23:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-prosecutor-wants-trump-trial-to-start-one-week-before-states-primary\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T23:59:00","slug":"georgia-prosecutor-wants-trump-trial-to-start-one-week-before-states-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-prosecutor-wants-trump-trial-to-start-one-week-before-states-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia prosecutor seeks to commence Trump trial a week prior to state primary."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorgia-prosecutor-wants-trump-trial-to-start-one-week-before-states-primary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2003019&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Georgia\u2019s Fulton \u200dCounty District Attorney Fani Willis proposed starting the trial in\u2064 her\u200c RICO case\u200c against former President Donald Trump and 18 of his allies\u200b roughly one week before the \u2063state\u2019s primary.<\/h2>\n<p>In a filing on Wednesday, Willis\u2019 team asked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">presiding judge<\/a> to consider a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/appeals-court-stays-fdas-ban-on-juul-e-cigs\/\" title=\"Appeals Court Stays FDA\u2019s Ban on Juul E-Cigs\">scheduling order<\/a> that \u200dwould have\u2063 arraignments for the defendants on the \u2062week of September 5 and a trial \u2064commencing on March 4, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The suggested trial start date is significant because\u2062 it falls on \u200cthe calendar one day before Super Tuesday and eight days\u2064 before Georgia\u2019s primary set for March 12.\u200d Trump is currently the \u2062front-runner \u200bfor \u200dthe Republican presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution,\u2063 it is unlikely \u200bSuperior\u2064 Court Judge \u2064Scott McAfee will make\u200c a \u2062decision on the proposed scheduling order until \u200chearing \u2062from the defendants.<\/p>\n<p>Special prosecutor Nathan\u2062 Wade wrote in the filing for Willis\u2019 team that their proposed dates \u201cdo not conflict\u201d with \u200calready-scheduled hearings and trial dates in other cases,\u2064 specifically mentioning Trump. The filing \u200cadditionally proposes other\u200d dates regarding discovery and \u2063other issues leading up to the trial.<\/p>\n<p>A\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fed-prosecution-will-disrupt-other-trump-cases-ny-attorney-general-predicts\/\" title=\"NY Attorney General predicts Fed prosecution will disrupt other Trump cases.\">hush-money case brought<\/a> by Manhattan District\u2064 Attorney Alvin Bragg is\u2062 scheduled \u2064to go to trial \u200bon March 25. Special counsel Jack Smith\u2019s documents\u2064 case against Trump is set to begin on May 20 in\u200c Florida. And in a federal case focused on the 2020 election, Smith\u2064 has asked \u2063for a January 2 \u2064trial\u200b start date in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also faces a \u200cfraud suit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James that is set to go to trial in October and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-denies-trumps-motion-for-new-trial-in-carroll-defamation-case\/\" title=\"Judge rejects Trump's request for new trial in Carroll defamation case.\">defamation\u200d lawsuit brought<\/a> by writer E. Jean Carroll, who \u200baccuses the former president of raping her, with a trial in that case expected in mid-January.<\/p>\n<p>Across all the legal matters, Trump has broadly\u2062 denied any wrongdoing. \u2064When it comes to the four criminal cases, he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-prosecutor-wants-trump-trial-to-start-one-week-before-states-primary\/\" title=\"Georgia prosecutor seeks to commence Trump trial a week prior to state primary.\">claimed\u200c politically \u200bmotivated forces<\/a> are targeting him in \u200ca\u2064 \u201cwitch hunt\u201d propagated by the Biden administration and Democrat prosecutors in New York and Georgia.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE \u2064TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the \u2062Georgia case, Trump and 18 others were charged \u2063this week in an \u2062alleged scheme to overturn the results of the last presidential election in the state. At a press conference on Monday, Willis \u2062said she would give the defendants subject \u200cto arrest warrants \u201cthe opportunity\u201d to voluntarily surrender by noon on Friday, August 25.<\/p>\n<p>With a post to Truth Social on Tuesday, Trump said he is planning\u200b to produce a \u2062report \u2064showing fraud in Georgia\u2019s \u200c2020 election at a press conference next week that \u2064will hurt Willis\u2019 case against him and his\u2063 co-defendants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia&#8217;s Fulton County DA, Fani Willis, seeks to commence the trial for her RICO case against ex-President Donald Trump and 18 associates about a week before the state&#8217;s primary. Willis&#8217; team filed a request, urging the judge to establish a scheduling order that includes arraignments for the defendants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":2003021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}