Sidney Powell, a former Trump attorney charged alongside the former president in the Georgia election interference case, has filed a motion for a speedy trial.

Powell’s request makes her the second of the 19 charged in the case to do so.

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    1 year ago

    The Fani Willis reaction to Cheseboro doing this (“Speedy trial? Sure, how about October?”) speaks loudly to the strength of her case.

    With racketeering, you have to prove that there was an overarching criminal conspiracy, and then you prove that the defendant(s) was/were a part of it in the ways that you’ve charged them to be. So all the defendants (regarding the same conspiracy) will have a lot of identical/shared evidence being used against them at trial.

    So tactically, if one or two of the group go first, the rest get to see a preview of most of the body of evidence that will be used against them. If there’s any weakness in the presented case, they can craft their defense around it.

    And here, Fani Willis pretty much said, “That’s fine.”

    They must have every step of this proven beyond any doubt whatsoever. Based on her reaction to these speedy trial motions, if I were one of those people charged in this conspiracy, I’d be very, very worried.

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      So tactically, if one or two of the group go first, the rest get to see a preview of most of the body of evidence that will be used against them. If there’s any weakness in the presented case, they can craft their defense around it.

      The defendant has a constitutional right to have access to all evidence that will or could be used against them, as well as any exculpatory evidence the prosecutor might have.

      So if there’s a tactic, it’s not to be able to see the evidence to improve their legal defense, it’s to be able to spin the evidence to the public in the coming months to try to get Trump elected or rile the mob enough for people to try another J6.