When Saugatuck City Councilmember Garnet Lewis, a three-time candidate for the Michigan Legislature and former mayor, was collecting signatures for city…
with the prosecutor s office before they actually show up and surrender if they want to try to negotiate terms ahead of time, terms of release, terms of bond if that is applicable. and then normally for defendants in this jurisdiction they would show up at the fulton county jail and they would be processed there, which would include of course getting their fingerprints taken, getting a mugshot taken, and then at some point after that we do expect these defendants will be appearing in court. that will be their initial appearance, their arraignment. that doesn t necessarily happen the same time that they surrender, the way that we ve seen in these federal cases. a presidential mug shot. sara murray outside the court there in fulton county, thanks so much. jessica. the d.a. in the georgia case wants a trial within six months. special counsel jack smith wants the federal election trial to start january. and further highlighting the competing court dockets at play here, today a differen
policies here in new york. of course, he is the manhattan d.a. who has been accused of being soft on crime. he is also the guy who indicted donald trump just about a week ago as well. what do you know about this? and what do you think we are going to learn? well, i think that it s very good that the judiciary committee is going to have that field hearing in new york city. crime is a huge issue in america. this is an issue that s been a priority for the republican majority in the house. we have looked at crime. we believe we have high crime rates for various reasons. two of which are we don t have a secure border. therefore, more drugs are pouring across the border leading to more crimes and a lot of soft on crime prosecutors. i think that s one of the areas they are going to look at with alvin bragg. our resources are limited. the court dockets are limited. but we have district attorneys and prosecutors who are focusing on things to enhance their political career as opposed to trying