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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.

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  • She always looks like she's been hit in the face with a pan by a cartoon mouse, and her face hasn't yet gone back to the shape it should be. But yes, by all means finish her trial, and then throw her in prison. I've been waiting long enough to see these creeps go to jail; I'm just as eager for a speedy trial as they are.

  • The Fani Willis reaction to Cheseboro doing this ("Speedy trial? Sure, how about October?") speaks loudly to the strength of her case.

    With racketeering, you have to prove that there was an overarching criminal conspiracy, and then you prove that the defendant(s) was/were a part of it in the ways that you've charged them to be. So all the defendants (regarding the same conspiracy) will have a lot of identical/shared evidence being used against them at trial.

    So tactically, if one or two of the group go first, the rest get to see a preview of most of the body of evidence that will be used against them. If there's any weakness in the presented case, they can craft their defense around it.

    And here, Fani Willis pretty much said, "That's fine."

    They must have every step of this proven beyond any doubt whatsoever. Based on her reaction to these speedy trial motions, if I were one of those people charged in this conspiracy, I'd be very, very worried.

  • I, for one, appreciate this wax-faced lady stepping forward to provide content during the WGA/SGA strikes!

  • It’s a tactic they use to see what the prosecutor will do and how they present the case.

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