{"id":2019568,"date":"2023-09-01T16:04:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T20:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defendant-requesting-speedy-trial-in-trump-election-case-pleads-not-guilty\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T16:06:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T20:06:14","slug":"defendant-requesting-speedy-trial-in-trump-election-case-pleads-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defendant-requesting-speedy-trial-in-trump-election-case-pleads-not-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Defendant in Trump election case pleads not guilty, seeks speedy trial."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fdefendant-requesting-speedy-trial-in-trump-election-case-pleads-not-guilty%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=2019568&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>Kenneth Chesebro Pleads Not Guilty in\u200b Georgia Election Racketeering Case<\/h2>\n<p>Kenneth Chesebro, along \u2064with\u2064 former President Donald Trump\u2063 and 17\u2064 others, is facing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-reveals-shes-been-building-a-massive-rico-case-against-dominion-smartmatic\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Reveals She\u2019s Been Building a Massive RICO Case Against Dominion, Smartmatic\">racketeering case<\/a> \u200din Fulton County, Georgia. However, Chesebro has pleaded not guilty \u2064and has chosen to \u2064waive his right to appear in court for the arraignments on September 6th. You can view his plea <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fultonclerk.org\/DocumentCenter\/View\/2150\/23SC188947-WAIVER-OF-ARRAINGMENT-AND-NOT-GUILTY-PLEA-KENNETH-JOHN-CHESEBRO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The charges against the 19 defendants stem from their \u2063actions to challenge the 2020 election results in Georgia. \u200dFulton County District Attorney Fani Willis alleges that these actions constituted a &#8220;criminal racketeering\u200d enterprise&#8221; and conspiracy. Chesebro, \u200dwho served \u200bas an attorney for\u2063 President Trump during that time, played\u200c a role in organizing the alternate \u2063slate of \u2062electors.<\/p>\n<p>Chesebro&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-provided-fbi-location-data-from-over-5000-devices-for-jan-6-investigation\/\" title=\"Google Provided FBI Location Data from Over 5,000 Devices for Jan. 6 Investigation\">lawyers recently filed<\/a> a not guilty plea and responded to Willis&#8217;s insistence that \u200call \u200bdefendants be tried \u2064together on October 23rd. They objected\u2064 to the proposed timeline, \u2064arguing\u2064 that it was retaliation for Chesebro&#8217;s request for a speedy trial. They claimed that Willis&#8217;s filing was an attempt \u200dto\u200d avoid complying with statutory discovery obligations.<\/p>\n<h3>Speedy Trial Timeline<\/h3>\n<p>After Chesebro requested a speedy\u200d trial, \u200dWillis proposed an October 23rd \u200ctrial \u200bdate. However, Judge Scott McAfee ordered that this\u2064 timeline would not \u2062be required \u200bfor the other 18 defendants. Attorneys for President Trump, Ray Smith, and Sidney Powell have already \u200bfiled motions\u200d to sever \u200ctheir cases from Chesebro&#8217;s, and others may do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Willis filed \u2062a motion urging the court to try all 19 \u2064defendants together\u2063 on October 23rd,\u200b arguing that Chesebro\u2063 never filed a motion\u2063 to \u200bsever his case. She also \u200drequested that\u2063 the judge inform the defendants of \u200dthe\u2062 effects of their\u2063 speedy trial demands, claiming that they\u2063 would no longer be entitled to\u2063 certain \u200crights and notices.<\/p>\n<p>Chesebro&#8217;s \u200blawyers argued that\u2064 Willis misunderstood the statutory right to a speedy trial and cited case precedents erroneously. They emphasized\u200d that \u2063discovery \u200cmust be provided 10 days before trial and \u200dcriticized the prosecution&#8217;s request to\u2064 disregard the judge&#8217;s timeline.<\/p>\n<p>The Georgia case has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defendant-requesting-speedy-trial-in-trump-election-case-pleads-not-guilty\/\" title=\"Defendant in Trump election case pleads not guilty, seeks speedy trial.\">garnered significant attention due<\/a>\u2064 to its scale and profile. Legal experts have been closely \u2063following\u200d the\u2064 arguments presented by both the prosecution and defense in the 41-count indictment. This case \u2064is similar to the one President Trump \u200bwill face in federal court in Washington, D.C. next March.<\/p>\n<p>Many observers have\u200c expressed skepticism about the rushed timelines proposed by Willis. The\u2064 complexity of trying all 19 defendants together \u200band accommodating their schedules \u200cand legal teams has\u200d raised doubts about the feasibility of her proposed timeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Chesebro, one of the 19 defendants, including former President Donald Trump, in a racketeering case in Fulton County, Georgia, has pleaded not guilty. He waived his right to appear in court and will be arraigned on Sept. 6. The charges stem from their efforts to challenge the 2020 election results in Georgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2167,"featured_media":2019569,"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":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"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\/2019568","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\/2167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2019569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}