Trump will not be tried next month along with Powell and Chesebro in the Georgia election case
September 14, 2023
A judge in Georgia ruled on Thursday that the former president
Donald
Trump and 16 others will be tried separately, along with two defendants who will appear in court next month in the case accusing them of participating in an illegal scheme to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election.
Attorneys Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro had filed motions for a speedy trial, and Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee had decided their trial would begin Oct. 1. 23. Trump and other defendants had asked to be tried separately from Powell and Chesebro, with some saying they could not be ready by the late October trial date.
Fulton County Dist. Atty. Fani Willis won an indictment last month against Trump and 18 others, charging them under the state’s anti-racketeering law. Willis had insisted on trying all nineteen defendants together, arguing that this would be more efficient and fair.
Chesebro and Powell had tried to be tried separately, but the judge also denied them
That
request.