I’ll believe it when I see it.
They didn’t say a jail sentence for trump, just ‘a jail sentence’. I mean, if they’re feeling technical, they could have one of the later cooperators spend 30 days in jail and meet that standard. … … … Actually, didn’t one of arrestees already have to spend time in jail because he couldn’t meet the original bail?
I know, right? They keep teasing us. Get to the good part already…
The word “predict” in that headline is doing a ton of heavy lifting.
And of course they want prison sentences, hence the RICO charges. Prison is almost a foregone conclusion on a guilty verdict for a GA RICO case.
"The previously unreported emails, between Willis and defense lawyers, open a window on to the endgame envisioned by prosecutors on her team – which could inform legal strategies ahead of a potential trial next year, such as approaches toward plea deal negotiations.”
Yes, that is what the article says. I don’t think that it opens any window any further than its already been opened by the RICO charges themselves, again, because a GA RICO conviction essentially requires a prison sentence. We knew what the intended endgame was the moment the charges were filed. These emails reveal nothing more.
The emails also underscore the increasing breakdown in trust with a growing number of defense lawyers who have regarded prosecutors’ tactics – including Willis assuming she will win – as inappropriately aggressive and presumptuous given the case remains months from a potential verdict.
How dare she assume that she could win a case she chose to take to trial! She should only bring cases to trial when she’s not sure she can win.
The remark about jail caused consternation with some of the defense lawyers, who have been aghast that the district attorney’s office would throw around what they took as a prison threat in a cavalier manner, according to multiple people familiar with the situation.
And she has the audacity to suggest that the defendants, who she assumes will be convicted of very serious crimes, will go to prison for those crimes? I’m not surprised that Trump’s defense team is screaming and rolling around on the ground like a soccer player who thinks someone may have brushed up against him, but I’m not sure why any of this is news?
Something something if no argument, then pound the table.
The emails also underscore the increasing breakdown in trust with a growing number of defense lawyers who have regarded prosecutors’ tactics – including Willis assuming she will win – as inappropriately aggressive and presumptuous given the case remains months from a potential verdict.
I’m not sure what they were expecting from her. I would expect no less from a prosecutor.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Fulton county prosecutors have signaled they want prison sentences in the Georgia criminal case against Donald Trump and his top allies for allegedly violating the racketeering statute as part of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to exchanges in private emails.
The previously unreported emails, between Willis and defense lawyers, open a window on to the endgame envisioned by prosecutors on her team – which could inform legal strategies ahead of a potential trial next year, such as approaches toward plea deal negotiations.
Prosecutors are not presently expected to offer plea agreements to Trump, his former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and his former election lawyer Rudy Giuliani, but left open the possibility of talks with other co-defendants, the Guardian previously reported.
The emails also underscore the increasing breakdown in trust with a growing number of defense lawyers who have regarded prosecutors’ tactics – including Willis assuming she will win – as inappropriately aggressive and presumptuous given the case remains months from a potential verdict.
The district attorney raised the prospect of defendants in prison in a 29 November exchange, which started with Trump’s lawyer Steve Sadow complaining about an incomplete Giuliani transcript the defense received in discovery, according to two people with direct knowledge of the emails.
The Fulton county superior judge Scott McAfee, who is presiding in the case, ultimately agreed to impose a protective order governing the release of discovery materials marked as “sensitive”, though the threat to only have proffer videos available in the district attorney’s offices was dropped.
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