A flurry of legal motions filed this week by defendants who want their cases delayed, moved, or expedited could help Fulton County DA Fani Willis.
Willis seems to have called his bluff
For his part, Trump swiftly opposed the motion, suggesting he would move to sever his case from Chesebro if the schedule were moved up so sharply.and four other defendants—Jeffrey Clark, Shawn Still, Cathy Latham, and David Shafer—filed motions to remove their cases from Fulton County court to Atlanta federal court.
Pullano said the typical prosecution strategy “in a multiple co-defendant case, is to divide and conquer.” Right now, every defense lawyer involved in the Fulton County case will have a decision to make, as they review the evidence turned over by Willis’ office, he continued.
There are legal reasons for the gambit, and a judge will hold a hearing on Monday on Meadows’ motion. “If a lot of [harmful] evidence is going to come out against Trump that may not be relevant to all the other defendants, sometimes certain jurors can’t compartmentalize,” said Rahmani. “If they separate the case, you’re on your own, only the evidence that implicates [that defendant] is going to come in. And it’s certainly a lot less than the evidence against Trump.”
In such an instance, the “whole conspiracy” is on trial, according to Pullano, who noted that every defendant, naturally, “is gonna try to distance themselves from the conspiracy.”
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