Sidney Powell asks for speedy trial in Georgia election interference case
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.
The significance is that if they ask for a speedy trial in Fulton County, the court is obligated to give it to them within the current 2 month court cycle or the next, and if they can’t go to trial in that time, the case is dropped and they go free.
Nobody really wants to go to trial that fast, not only because it’s hard to prepare the case that quickly, but it also limits the amount of pre-trial motions they can do.
It seems likely they were hoping Fani Willis couldn’t go to trial that fast and they could just walk free, but Willis was like “I’m cool with that. I can do this shit tomorrow if you want” and now they’ll get their speedy trial, which means their defense will be rushed and a little hamstrung.
These people aren’t smart.
I think you’re likely correct, and I was wrong. In John Chesebro’s filing for a speedy trial, Politico stated
A trial for all 19 defendants just two months from now seems implausible given the torrent of anticipated pretrial motions and complex legal issues likely to be litigated before a jury can be seated. Three of the defendants — Mark Meadows, Jeff Clark and David Shafer — are seeking to transfer the case to federal court, which would sideline the proceedings in Fulton County. Trump has yet to weigh in on that effort but is expected to make his own bid to scuttle the charges against him before trial.
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