There s a lot of back and forth around whether rico charges in georgia have a mandatory five year sentence or whether a convicted person can serve probation. also, whether it is five years in jail or a fine, or both i mean, how real is the legal peril here? right. so, anyone who is confused by george s statutory scheme is doing a really good job of reading the lot. because it is, in fact, really confusing. the statute the rico statute itself says that people who are convicted should be sentenced to no less than five years in prison. and that is language that we typically associate with a mandatory minimum. however, there is another provision of georgia law that says that the judge can make a decision in certain kinds of cases that the sentence should be one of probation. that it shouldn t be the full five your mandatory minimum and so, again, when willis indicted the educator case, some of the defendants who were convicted receive sentences of
100-year prison sentences. and the case may giuliani famous. and he s that fame to ultimately run for mayor of new york and, well, you know the rest of the story. but now a version of the same law georgia s rico statute a version of that law could be rudy giuliani s downfall. of all the indictments former president trump faces, one of the things that makes yesterday s unique ways, how many other defendants there or. because it is a rico case, trump was indicted along with 18 other codefendants. 19 people 19 all charged with being part of a criminal enterprise. just like how giuliani charge the commission in the 19 80s. and last night, fulton county d.a. fani willis made it clear that she intends to try this whole criminal enterprise together. do i intend to try the 19 defendants in this indictment together? yes. now, we have seen plenty of
Other defendants they are our. because it is a rico case, trump was indicted along with 18 other codefendants. 19 people 19 all charged with being part of a criminal enterprise. just like how giuliani charge charged the commission in the 1980s. and last night, fulton county d. a. fani willis made it clear that she intends to try this whole criminal enterprise together. do i intend to try the 19 defendants in this indictment together? yes. now, we have seen plenty of high-profile cases against individual defendants play out in court over the past few years. the trial against trump s former campaign manager paul manafort, for example. we know how those trials work. but what about a case against 19 people? but what about a rico case? how will this all work? and now that all 19 of this these individuals are facing serious jail time, how soon until someone in this case flips? because make no mistake, as much as trump is surrounded by
Influenced and corrupt organization act of 1970. you might know it more as rico. before 1970, prosecutors were limited to seeking indictments for specific acts, such as the commission of a crime to finding witnesses who would conspiracy. rico change that. if you could prove that there was an enterprise or an organized group of some kind, conspiring together to commit multiple crimes, then you could charge for that conspiracy. it s back in 1983, i think when ron came to visit me to talk about putting together a rico case. at that point, we all thought that there was a possibility of putting together a case on the commission of the mafia. but it was on the drawing board at the time. and there were an awful lot of people, including people within law enforcement that thought that that was totally unrealistic, ridiculous, could not be done. rudy giuliani did it. the top bosses in new york s most powerful mafias were given
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