Federal judge to set date for historic US vs. Trump trial

The date of what may be one of the most momentous trials in the history of USA It will be known this Monday, when a federal judge sets the calendar for the court hearing in Washington against the former president donald trump.

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A few days after the unprecedented episode of the mugshot of the former president taken in a prison in Georgia (Southeast), As a result of his fourth criminal indictment, the fate of the Republican primary favorite will depend in part on the District Court judge Tanya Chutkan.

Trump faces charges of conspiring to nullify the 2020 election, in which he was defeated by the Democrat Joe Biden.

the special prosecutor jack smith proposed that the judgment of Trump before a federal court in Washington begins on January 2, 2024, estimating that this “It shouldn’t last more than four to six weeks.”

That date “means a proper balance between the right of the defendant to prepare his defense, and the strong public interest in a speedy trial” in such an emblematic case, highlighted Smith.

The defenders of Trump They suggested a date much further back, in April 2026, long after the November 2024 presidential elections, in which the real estate mogul seeks to return to the White House.

“The public interest is in a fair and equitable process, and not in a hasty sentence”, they argued by virtue of the number of documents to be examined.

The judge Tanya Chutkan will listen to the arguments of the two parties this Monday at 10:00 local time (14:00 GMT) in a federal court in the capital.

Your decision on the trial date may be key in the aspirations of the Republican to obtain the nomination of his party in the race for the White House.

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“Provocation”

Most of the legal experts they consider the term of two and a half years claimed by the defense as exaggerated and estimate that a term more in line with the wishes of the prosecution will be established.

“It is undoubtedly a provocation towards the lady chutkan. She has before her a serious proposal and a stupid proposalsaid the former prosecutor and law professor harry litman on MSNBC on Friday.

“I think you will want to show restraint and leave no room for the argument that the trial would be hasty.or”, added Litman, who predicts that the date will be “around March or April” of 2024.

In addition, the judge has already warned Trump about any “inflammatory statement likely to contaminate jury selection,” which may cause the magistrate to set a closer trial date.

In 2023, the 77-year-old former president already accumulates four criminal accusations, two of them made by Smith and another two by state prosecutors from NY and Georgia.

The dates of the trials in NY and in Florida They were set for March and May 2024, respectively. In the first, a porn actress is accused of covert payments so as not to talk about an alleged relationship extramaritaland in the second, for alleged mishandling of secret government documents.

“I suppose that the four judges in charge of these cases have tried to coordinate the order of the processes and that the prosecutors of NY and of Georgia defer theirs in deference to federal cases”, he explained to AFP Carl Tobiaslaw professor at the Richmond University.

Trump systematically blames his legal problems on the president’s administration Bidenwhom he could face again in his candidacy in 2024, repeating the scenario of the 2020 presidential elections.

denouncing “electoral interference”the tycoon insists that these processes be carried out after the elections.

For the Republican Political Consultant Whit Ayresan acquittal in his first trial, whatever it may be, would contribute to making his advance in the Republican primaries irreversible.

“I don’t see how it would be possible to stop it” in his career for investmentsaid the expert in an online interview.

“But if convicted of a serious charge, I don’t know how people will react”he explained, “because we have never seen a situation even remotely similar to this”.

Source: Elcomercio

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