{"id":2031580,"date":"2023-09-14T10:08:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T14:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indictment-judge-rejects-fani-willis-bid-to-try-all-rico-defendants-together\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T10:09:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T14:09:57","slug":"donald-trump-indictment-judge-rejects-fani-willis-bid-to-try-all-rico-defendants-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indictment-judge-rejects-fani-willis-bid-to-try-all-rico-defendants-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge denies Fani Willis&#8217; request to try all RICO defendants jointly in Donald Trump indictment."},"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\">30<\/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%2Fdonald-trump-indictment-judge-rejects-fani-willis-bid-to-try-all-rico-defendants-together%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=2031580&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>The Fulton \u200cCounty Judge Rejects Prosecutors&#8217; Bid for \u2063Joint \u2064Trial in\u200b Trump Election Subversion Case<\/h2>\n<p>The Fulton\u2063 County, Georgia judge presiding\u200c over former President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2020 election subversion case has made a significant decision. In an \u2063order issued \u200don Thursday,\u2063 Judge Scott \u2062McAfee rebuffed \u200bprosecutors&#8217; request to \u2063try all 19 defendants together.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Court joins\u2064 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-courts-skepticism-of-student-debt-cancellation-looms-over-biden-agenda\/\" title=\"Supreme Court's Skepticism of Student Debt Cancellation Looms Over Biden Agenda\">skepticism expressed<\/a> by \u200cseveral federal courts that\u2064 denying severance always ensures efficiency, especially in \u2018mega trials\u2019 such as this,\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This ruling \u2062has important \u200bimplications, as it means that Trump will not be tried\u200b alongside at least two of his\u2062 co-defendants on October 23, as they had requested a \u2063speedy trial.<\/p>\n<p>However, McAfee has promised to have weekly check-ins with the defendants who have \u2062requested\u200c a\u200b speedy trial. During the livestreamed hearing on Thursday, he is expected to rule on three motions from Kenneth Chesebro \u200dand Sidney Powell. Last week, McAfee\u200c had already decided\u2063 that Chesebro and\u200d Powell would\u2062 be tried together on October 23, rejecting attempts to separate their cases.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants have filed\u200b several motions seeking answers.\u200c These include\u200d a request to speak with the\u2063 grand jurors who handed up the indictment, unsealing transcripts from witnesses who testified before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-prosecutors-convene-grand-jury-to-hear-evidence-in-criminal-investigation-into-trump-others\/\" title=\"NY Prosecutors Convene Grand Jury To Hear Evidence In Criminal Investigation Into Trump, Others\">special grand jury<\/a>, and disclosing the names of \u2063the\u2063 un-indicted co-conspirators described by prosecutors in the \u200cracketeering case brought by\u2063 Fani Willis.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors argued in a filing on Wednesday\u200d that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indictment-judge-rejects-fani-willis-bid-to-try-all-rico-defendants-together\/\" title=\"Judge denies Fani Willis' request to try all RICO defendants jointly in Donald Trump indictment.\">holding multiple lengthy trials<\/a> would strain the judicial \u200dresources of the Fulton County Superior \u200bCourt.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u2064 McAfee expressed \u200bskepticism last week, stating that it \u200b&#8221;seems a bit unrealistic&#8221; to hold a \u2064trial for \u2062all 19 defendants in October. This suggests that he is inclined to deny Willis&#8217;s \u200crequest.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing is scheduled to begin \u200dat\u200c 10 a.m. and will be streamed on McAfee&#8217;s \u200dYouTube channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee rejected prosecutors&#8217; request to try all 19 defendants together in the 2020 election subversion case against former President Donald Trump. He echoed the doubts of federal courts, stating that denying severance does not guarantee efficiency, particularly in large-scale trials like this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2031581,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2031580","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}