Prosecutors propose March 2024 trial date for Trump’s Georgia case
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox
Former US president Donald Trump is facing election interference charges in Georgia.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Follow topic:
WASHINGTON - The district attorney prosecuting former United States president Donald Trump on election interference charges in Georgia
The proposed March 4 trial date is one day before Super Tuesday, during which voters in more than a dozen states are set to cast their ballots for the Republican presidential nomination.
Ms Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, submitted her recommendation in a court filing on Wednesday. The filing also said that initial appearances for the various defendants charged in the Georgia election case should happen during the week of Sept 5.
Lawyers and a spokesman for Trump did not immediately return a request for comment.
A Fulton County grand jury on Tuesday indicted Trump and 18 others, accusing him of seeking to undo his 2020 election loss to US President Joe Biden. Trump is set to go on trial in New York on March 25, 2024, on separate charges of concealing a hush money payment to a porn star
Ms Willis said in Wednesday’s filing that the proposed schedule does “not conflict” with other hearings and trial dates set in Trump’s other criminal cases.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in an interview with WNYC radio in July – before Trump was indicted in two other cases, including Georgia – that the various judges involved may “confer” about the schedules.
Trump’s attorneys have argued in other criminal cases for any trial be scheduled after the November 2024 presidential election.
Trump is set to go on trial in Florida next May on charges of retaining sensitive government documents
US Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office has also asked a Washington federal judge to schedule a Jan 2 trial start date on charges that Trump had plotted to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Trump’s attorneys had a Thursday deadline to propose their own trial date in that case. REUTERS
