A former federal prosecutor and news analyst has called Fani Willis’ goals “unrealistic” in Donald Trump’s Georgia 2020 election subversion case.
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Federal prosecutor says Fani Willis’ goal in Trump case unrealistic
A former federal prosecutor said Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis, who recently charged the former president donald trump‘has no realistic goals.’
In an interview on Tuesday, former federal prosecutor Jennifer Rodgers claimed that Willis would not get the desired outcome from the charge.
Willis presented an indictment against Trump and his 18 other allies for their attempt to overthrow the 2020 Georgia Election Results. Jennifer Rodgers said prosecutors have set a goal of having trials in the case within six months, which she says is “unrealistic”. She spoke about Willis’ goals when the host asked her about the likely timing of trials in the case.
The host asked: “In 2022, last year, she filed a complaint against a rapper and several others. What does that tell you about the timing of this case and how quickly or how slowly it might go to trial? »
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Jennifer Rodgers replied, “Fani Willis has had a lot of experience with RICO throughout her career as a prosecutor, so she knows what she’s doing in that regard. But going back to the Young Thug case, she’s still in jury selection. I mean months and months just in jury selection.
Comparing the jury selection process in previous cases and Trump’s case, Rodgers added, “Choosing a jury for the former president and these other former senior officials and lawyers and so on. is going to be even more complicated than choosing a jury for the Young Thug RICO case. So to me, that again underscores that six months is an unrealistic goal to try this thing.
Willis began his investigation just a month after Trump leaked his January 2021 phone call to the Georgian secretary of state to help the former president with enough voters to win him the state’s 2020 election. . She investigated Trump’s illegal attempts to influence election results in one of America’s major political battlegrounds.
The interview came after Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney briefed reporters and the public on the shooting of the indictment announcement before the grand jury delivered the indictment. indictment of Trump. McBurney said, “If a grand jury presents an indictment, it’s usually in the afternoon, and you can film and photograph that.”
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The outlet said, “If the grand jury votes to indict, whether Monday or Tuesday, the indictment will be transported from Willis’ office to the county courthouse by a representative from the clerk’s office, the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office and Grand Jury. It will be presented to McBurney for signature and made public. The names of the jurors will also be made public at that time.
According to the outlet, McBurney also said, “The media cameras in the courtroom will be allowed to film as soon as it is made public. But there will be no reading aloud of the documents.
Trump, a GOP frontrunner for the 2024 presidential nomination, said he would not take any plea deals, calling his fourth indictment “election interference.”
The former president said, “We’re not taking plea deals because I haven’t done anything wrong. This is called election interference.
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