On Monday, John Eastman requested that former President Donald Trump be tried separately from his co-defendants in the Georgia 2020 election case.
Eastman disagreed with a motion filed earlier in November by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, asking for a trial start date of August 5, 2024, and a final plea date of June 21, 2024.
In his filing, he requests that Judge Scott McAfee move the June date to an earlier time in 2024, calling it “arbitrary and capricious.”
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“The ‘final plea date’ should be established earlier in 2024 so that defendants who do not have lifetime United States Secret Service protection and who are not running for election to an office can exercise and have their right to a jury trial completed within 2024,” the below filing says.
Another request Eastman made was to divide the remaining defendants into two groups “absent former President Trump.”
“Establishing a ‘Final Plea date’ earlier in 2024 and severing the defendants into two groups would provide more than enough time for the Court to try two trials each of eight [or] fewer defendants, absent former President Trump who at the present may be said to be the presumptive Republican nominee for the office of President of the United States,” Eastman’s lawyer wrote. “Without Defendant Trump in the courtroom the U.S. Secret Service will not be involved in providing enhanced security, and the trials will proceed faster.”
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Eastman was one of 19 co-defendants indicted on August 14.
He was charged with nine counts, including violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
Since then, plea agreements have been accepted by four defendants: Scott Hall, Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell, and Jenna Ellis.
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