DA Willis calls Chesebro's bluff

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Hugo Lowell @hugolowell · 3m
NEW: Fulton County DA Fani Willis indicates her team is ready to go to trial immediately, on Oct. 23 2023 for all 19 defendants — comes after ex Trump lawyer Ken Chesebro filed for a speedy trial betting that she wouldn’t be ready.

Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance · 1m
Ken Chesebro, the Trump co-defendant who asked for a speedy trial, thought he was calling Willis' bluff on her readiness to go to trial. He was not. Willis is not here to play.

Bradley P. Moss @BradMossEsq · 14m Haha.
Willis sees Chesebro’s gamble and raises him by seeking to try the whole group in two months.

Willis Trial Date Motion
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23926015-willis-trial-date-motion

[Ocelot II]

1. Game, set, match.

[TheBlackAdder]

82. Chesebro: I Want A Speedy Trial? Willis: OK, October 23rd! Chesebro: Whatchu Talking About, Willis?

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[2naSalit]

86. +1

[C_U_L8R]

2. No one will ever say they were smart crooks.

Good gawd.

[CaptainTruth]

47. Really Incompetent Criminal Organization

RICO!

[Best_man23]

55. SUAVE!

[calimary]

73. LOVE it!!!

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[Renaissance Man]

4. F*** Around and Find Out with Fani

These folks are underestimating Fani Willis. Chances are that she was prepared for trial before the indictment was handed down by the grand jury.

[NotHardly]

32. Indeed, please proceed!

[dchill]

37. She was SURELY prepared. We're not talking about a gaggle...

... of amateurs like the Trump Troupe. They set out to break the law and expected no one to have a problem with it.

[bullimiami]

44. When the indictments came down she was ready except for some i-dots and t-crosses.

[hlthe2b]

5. My immense admiration for her grows daily...

[ancianita]

14. Mine, too. I daresay she's even more badass than Smith, though

the scale of his investigations is greater than hers. Still. She's one badass prosecutor.

[Jerry2144]

43. I'm in love with her brilliance, acumen, and general competence

So refreshing compared to all the Republiklan buffoons in any government position

[BadgerMom]

67. DA Willis, American hero!

[Novara]

6. You want a speedy trial? I got your speedy trial right here, bub!

I love Fani Willis.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

7. He obviously has no idea

of who he's dealing with here, he thought that he would throw a wrench in her case, he thought wrong.

[former9thward]

8. No, she is the one trying to tie the 19 together.

That is not what the GA law says. It says a specific defendant is entitled to a speedy trial. That provision is not dependent on other defendants who are entitled to review evidence and conduct depositions in a reasonable time.

[JohnSJ]

28. Not necessarily. Some attorneys are saying Cheesebro's speedy trial request apply to all

“Atlanta attorney Andrew Fleischman said there is little court precedent examining how Georgia's speedy trial rule and the federal removal statute interact.
"There's no case law," said Fleischman, a former public defender now at Sessions & Fleischman. "It just sounds messy."
A spokeswoman for the DA declined to comment.
Outside attorneys say a speedy trial demand such as Chesebro's would apply to all 19 defendants, so if any of the other 18 defendants would rather have more time to prepare for trial -- Trump's attorneys are expected to ask that any case in Fulton County be delayed until after the 2024 election -- they will have to file motions to sever their cases from Chesebro's. Those motions would have to be decided by Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing the case.
The DA previously said she plans to try all 19 defendants together.”

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/aug/24/giuliani-is-booked-released-in-atlanta/#:~:text=Outside%20attorneys%20say%20a%20speedy,%2D%2D%20they%20will%20have%20to

I also heard this discussion on MSNBC yesterday

[former9thward]

51. That is what I am saying.

The judge would sever the cases causing Willis' attempt to tie all 19 together to fail.

[JohnSJ]

70. Then I misread. Thanks

[Bobstandard]

9. Does this mean they all have to be tried together?

I don’t even play a lawyer on tv, so I don’t know I assumed each would be tried separately. Perhaps this is DA Willis’ way of telling them all that she’s ready to try any of them immediately if necessary.

School me someone.

(And is that apostrophe used correctly?)

[Novara]

13. Since there was no motion to sever, yes.

[bigtree]

16. it'll be up to the judge

... but Willis is signaling Chesebro and the 18 others that the state is certainly ready to go.

[Roland99]

45. Not yet, anyway

There will be LOTS AND LOTS of motions filed over the next few months

Mostly intended to delay and delay and delay....

[getagrip_already]

22. According to yapping jaws......

It's up to the newly minted judge.........

He can either try them all together by the required date or split them apart.

Willis is just saying she is ready snd able to try them all. It's not her call.

[Nanuke]

24. Yes. The Willis' apostrophe is correct. No need to add an additional s if possessive noun ends in s.

—Former English teacher here

[HighFired49]

53. Nouns

The general rule is that the possessive of a singular noun is formed by adding an apostrophe and s, whether the singular noun ends in s or not. The possessive of a plural noun is formed by adding only an apostrophe when the noun ends in s, and by adding both an apostrophe and s when it ends in a letter other than s.
https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/apostrophe.html#:~:text=The%20general%20rule%20is%20that,ends%20in%20s%20or%20not.&text=The%20possessive%20of%20a%20plural,a%20letter%20other%20than%20s.

Willis is a singular noun, so get an 's.

Geography and Anthropology major.

[Nanuke]

69. Thank you for the correction. Nice job.

[ecstatic]

77. I read that it can go either way

[ShazzieB]

78. Interesting!

English major here, and I wasn't aware of this distinction

Beginning in grade school, I was always taught to add only an apostrophe to any noun ending in an "s." No distinction was made between singular and plural nouns.

I went to college and grad school in the 70s and don't remember this ever coming up. I wonder if this is a relatively recent stylistic change. There are definitely other things I was taught about grammar and punctuation in grade school and high school that are no longer correct. In any case, this one makes sense!

[Beachnutt]

10. Judge please grant his motion for speedy trial

and try all of them in order to not violate his constitutional right.
The other 18 don't have a constitutional right to delay a trial.

[underpants]

11. Hilarious

[NBachers]

12. Your move, Cheez Bro

[HuskyOffset]

49. Game, Set . . . Cheddar!

Brother Cheese, it is your move. After pondering for a moment, Brother Cheddar opts to go all in, and moves that, in the event he is found guilty, the Death Penalty shall be applied.

[not fooled]

15. Hahahahahahahahaha

And does this development also strengthen Willis' hand re going to trial before GA pukes would try to remove her per their new fascist law?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

58. "Prosecuting a white guy while black" is the offense the Repugs would use

to show that she's gone rogue and has to be removed from her elected office.

That was the entire point of that hastily drawn, passed and signed bill. The Banana Republicans need to fulfill their constitutional oath, which is to protect Trump at all costs. If they could send in the National Guard and arrest everyone in the DA's office, they would. The Repugs want an autocracy, and given the Orange Tangerine's grasp on the party -- both by the balls and the pussy -- they could get what they want.

January 6 was just a rehearsal for the Main Event -- a coup "like the world has never seen," to use TFG's favorite phrase.

[JohnSJ]

17. She took her time before bringing it before a grand jury, so I have no doubt she is well prepared

[bigtree]

19. probably the most thorough so far

...because of the way she began with the special grand jury and ended with an entirely new set of citizens in the general.

[PortTack]

18. She knows the law- was no doubt prepared for this. If not, she would have waited to bring

Indictments until she was ready.

[NotHardly]

20. Looks like the 19 are at the "find out phase" of FAFO.

[spanone]

21. Bwahahahahahahaaaa

[kentuck]

23. Let's get it on, MoFo!

She's ready when you are.

[AverageOldGuy]

25. I can hear it now . . .

DA Willis' instructions to her staff: "Take no prisoners and don't put up with any stunts!!"

[newdayneeded]

26. Am I the only one here who thought

I read "cheesebro" and thought it was another clever name for donny the orange skinned man.

lol!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

27. Is there a link to a pdf of DA Willis' filing somewhere?

[joshcryer]

33. Here:

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23909566/23sc188947-criminal-indictment.pdf

[Hermit-The-Prog]

35. Thanks, but I already have the original indictment.

I'm looking for the document in the OP.

[bigtree]

38. Willis Trial Date Motion

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23926015-willis-trial-date-motion

[Hermit-The-Prog]

41. Thanks!! That got it...

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23926015/willis-trial-date-motion.pdf

[joshcryer]

29. Why do you think it took them 2 years? They wanted an airtight case.

It's that simple.

[Sanity Claws]

30. She presented evidence to 2 grand juries

She probably knows this stuff down cold.

[czarjak]

31. Take A Load Off Fani

Lock who up?

[usonian]

34. You want 4-d chess?

[HuskyOffset]

50. Hmmmm . . .

[Owens]

36. Let's see how fast he changes his mind

Bet he backtracks this so fast.

[Martin68]

65. That's not an option.

[dchill]

39. These people all thought they were smarter than everyone else.

They still can't believe they were wrong.

[Justice matters.]

60. No. These RepubliQan crooks think because they do "politics" they are...

... above the law, in the sense that they expect to break laws and get away scot-free.

[BumRushDaShow]

40. She even gave time for him to see this lady Oct. 2

(ETA I know there was talk about this on MSNBC last night regarding the "speedy trial" and the other defendants - obviously some if not all possibly needing to testify including the ring-leader)

[Hortensis]

42. The judge could rule for Chesebro, which apparently would require Willis to bring HIS trial

up to presumably December, but oh well. The very public coverage as Willis nailed him for all THEIR crimes would not be good for the rest. And that would include The Big Fat Defendant as the primaries kick off in January.

The AJC points out that some have also filed to move their cases out of GA, and some experts say if that was granted all those charged would follow.

Complications I'm sure Willis and her team have foreseen and plan to deal with as the conspiracists and their advisors look, together and independently, for ways to loosen the jaws of the trap they created for themselves.

[Hekate]

46. That is just precious

[Mr. Ected]

48. Could any of the co-defendants waive their right to a speedy trial to delay their prosecution?

That's what's happening in the Brian Kohberger murder trial in Idaho.

[LAS14]

52. How do we know that was Chesbro's motivation? nt

[NoMoreRepugs]

54. The KlownKar is in free fall and they are hardly aware.

[twodogsbarking]

56. That is a giant kick to the crotch that will make him see stars.

[LiberalFighter]

57. I like to know who came up with the idea of filing for a speedy trial?

Chesebro? His attorney? Someone else?

[DJ Porkchop]

59. Oh she ready.

[Deminpenn]

61. Not sure which of the MSNBC legal beagles said it,

but one downside of a speedy trial is that the defense might not have time to thoroughly review discovery and to challenge evidence found during discovery to have that eidence possibly excluded.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

74. They can't complain now.

They shouldn't have filed for a speedy trial if they weren't ready to adjudicate one.

[Chili Pepper]

62. These Trumpers really think they're smarter than everyone else.

I love it!

[gruffmusic]

85. 6th grade clever

For years I've said Trump is 6th grade clever, but that may be an insult to 6th graders.

[gopiscrap]

88. welcome to DU

[SKKY]

63. Oh wait! October 23 of THIS year? I thought it was next year!

Yea, Fani Willis has none to give at this point.

[Joinfortmill]

64. Rofl. You go girl!

[Goodheart]

66. You know, her investigation seemed to take FOREVER to us.

I mean, why wouldn't she be ready to go to trial ASAP?

Suck on it, Cheesebro... you got trumped.

[malthaussen]

68. ROTFLMFAO. n/t

[soldierant]

71. The idiot law they passed

allowing them to investigate and remove DAs goes into effect sometime in October. It makes perfect sense for her to want the rrial ended by then. (they may actually be ivestigating while it is going on, but they are unlikely to finish before it does, I suspect.)

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

75. So what about that stupid law?

The law doesn't apply to her. It's for prosecutors who refuse to punish crimes. You can hardly go after her regarding these traitors for not filing charges against them--when she did.

[soldierant]

87. That was the intentin, but the way it written it could aply to her.

Don't take my word for it.

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/a-maga-mugshot

[Wild blueberry]

72. Grilled cheese

[EarnestPutz]

76. Don't you love some of the legalese? "Comes now, the State of Georgia....". Watch out Cheese man.

[republianmushroom]

79. I like it

[Sneederbunk]

80. All this and Chesebro hasn't even been arraigned.

[Blue Owl]

81. Chesebro in Paradise

[Desert Dog]

83. Strategy

If CheeseBro gets his trial split and it goes early, does that give team orange fella a chance to see Fani's cards early? Is there any tactical benefit for the group?

Love that the pardon is off the table. We might see some scrambling as the rats try to scurry from the mess. There is not much reason for politics on this. I think the mugshots of the locals is kinda sad. They got played and no GOP fat cats are gonna help them.

THE Mugshot reminds me of a scowling grinch.

[eleny]

84. popcorn is gonna disappear off store shelves like it's 2020