people would question whether she actually has her witnesses together, her evidence together. she is making it very clear that she is ready to go. now obviously, with the number of defendants that we have, there s going to be a lengthy pretrial motion, lengthy discovery process. but i think it s important to keep things moving, and i think the d. a. would want to keep things moving so that justice, whatever it may look like, based on the facts presented a trial, can be achieved expeditiously it s important, these each case needs to be viewed separately.
actual trial jury, even when you have cameras in the courtroom, the judge orders that those cameras cannot show the juror s faces. they have to constantly be directed away from the jurors and in most instances the only juror that is known is the person who signs whether it is guilty or not guilty verdict so in that respect i think there are more protections or at least there aren t means in the code that require the disclosure of the grand jurors names, or of the jurors names in a trial. that seems, given the landscape, a fortunate thing. there s been a lot of back and forth about the proposed schedule that da fani willis has laid out. jeffrey clark, one of the co-defendants in this indictment, is saying that the arraignment for defendants, the week of september 5th and a trial on march 4th, they are concerned, jeffrey kirk is concerned about the political nature of this case and the
steps taken by the state thus far. how much credence do you think the judge is going to give to co-defendants who are calling this all politics? i should say, how likely is it the d. a. willis is going to get anything within the ballpark of march 2024 as far as a trial? two things. first of all, d. a. willis has said, both the night she returned the indictment and throughout the course of her career, that she makes her decisions based on the facts, the evidence she can present at trial, and the law. she does not make decisions based on partisan politics. so i find it interesting that those that may view this case through a political lens, are transferring this lens to her, when she has made it clear that it s not her framing. with respect to the timing, we also heard her say that she was ready to try this case in six months. that may seem ambitious to some, but if you think about it, if she had said anything less than a ready to go sort of stance,
things i need to be reviewed before then, that there is a significant volume of documents here. both of that makes sense. the judge has to decide what really is due process here, what amount of time is reasonable by balancing both the defendant s need to have reasonable preparation but also the governmen s right to protect the public interest in the speedy trial. yeah. when we talk about the trial, whenever it scheduled market, the reality is that journalists, americans, other candidates are going to be witnessing the strangest split screen probably in american political history. which is, do we have the calendar? we have the iowa caucus is on the 15th of january, you have trump civil defamation case the same day, trump civil fraud case two weeks later, the month of march is peppered with caucuses and trials. i mean, this is election season 2024 is going to be, and it truly is unlike anything we have ever seen in this country. the fact that the presumed front runner is going to be bo
motions and just the general climate surrounding the run-up to an actual trial? well, in my experience i ve seen it whereas you get to the actual trial jury even when you have cameras in the courtroom, the judge orders that those cameras cannot show the juror s faces, they have to constantly be directed away from the jurors. and in most instances the only juror that is known is the foreperson who actually signs whether it s a guilty or not guilty verdict. so in that respect i think there are more protections or at least there aren t means in the code that require the disclosure of the grand juror s name or the jurors names in a trial. that seems the current landscape. i ve got to ask there s been a lot of back and forth today about the proposed schedule d.a. fani willis has laid out. jeffrey clark who s one of the codefendants in this indictment