the advantages to the nontried defendants, trump and the 17 others, is they get a preview of the evidence. they get to sit in the back of the courtroom and watch. the bad news is that sidney powell and chesebro might point the finger at trump and say, we were following his orders. we were just doing what he told us. he s the culprit. we re just victims of his criminality and he s not in the courtroom to defend himself. and that evidence just comes in and comes in and comes in blaming trump for everything. so there s a plus and a minus it these guys request. we ll see how the judge plays it with respect to joining the other ones in or et letting him be separate and distinct. so those are the pros and cons for the defendant. what about the prosecution? it means essentially they have to try their case twice. they can put in a bit of a streamlined case against these two, but they still have to prove the racketeering enterprise and that they were in
racketeering enterprise and its scope for every trial that you do. the prosecutors are not going to want to do that. and defendants are going to want more time. so we re definitely not going to see a huge trial in october. and we may see some separate. it will depend on how many defendants exit the case. i think in pretty quick order here fani willis and her team will start trying to plead out some of these lower level defendants and get them out of the case altogether so that they end up with a group that is manageable for trial. so we may see more than one trial depending on how many are left and depending on whether cheseboro stand with the case of an early trial. we won t see five, six more trials like that. i imagine if one of the trials happens earlier, looks like chesboro s will be that one, that defense attorneys for, say, the former president might watch that trial very closely to get a sense exactly of what the da s case is. is that an advantage potentially for it is an
assigned to each one. as opposed to giving a mass bond to cover the entire indictment, they broken down to a certain amount per charge. that would be normal. is it normal to self-report your height and weight? again, this is probably different. it is being treated different. had he gone and as a regular inmate or defendant to be turned in, they would have done a process and they typically would way into a patdown and those kinds of things. let s go through some of the charges here because i m wondering which ones you think is the most important and most significant in the first one, obviously, violation of the georgia rico act. that is alleging that he that is by far the most significant charge he sing. he will at trial i m sure be portrayed as the head of a racketeering enterprise that engaged in this conspiracy to steal the election, and then you can see the remainder of the
intended to fight organized crime and mobsters. you prosecute d several rico cases. tell us why it is being used in this case and why donald trump s legal team should be concerned. the federal rico statute was passed in 1970. about 30 states across the country have their own state rico charges. in georgia, the rico statute is a little bit broader. it permits more crimes to be considered as part of the racketeering activity. so it s concerning for any defendant, because it permits the state or the prosecution to introduce a lot of evidence that otherwise they would not be able to present, because the rico statute is so broad. it requires the state to prove there was a racketeering enterprise and all these people