Staff, mark meadows, and his postelection attorney, Rudy Giuliani. They are accused of engaging in a conspiracy to commit crimes intended to reverse trumps loss in georgia in 2020. The 98page indictment lists 13 State Charges against trump himself including racketeering as well as false statements. Prosecutors claim trump and his codefendants, quote, refused to accept that trump lost and knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election. District attorney fani willis wants the trial to start within six months. And unlike in Federal Court that trial could be televised. Lets begin at the courthouse in atlanta with cnns sara murray. And sara, this is a much more sprawling case both in terms of the number of defendants but also the nature and scope of the charges than what we saw in the Special Counsels case. Help lay it out for us. Reporter yeah, i think thats absolutely right. In these other federal cases we have seen donald trump largely charge
Of the movie goodfellas and organized crime and mobsters. certainly rico can be used to prosecute folks like that. but what it is targeted after is criminal enterprises. when people act as a group and carry out criminal acts sort of in succession. and here that s the allegation, that that happened in the state of georgia. now, it can carry a five-year mandatory minimum sentence. judges in georgia have a little latitude to go below that. understood. if you can briefly before i get to pardon, which is an important distinction here, if you were to look at all these charges as a lawyer and a former prosecutor yourself, all these cases, which is the most serious, the most threatening? anything with a 20-year maximum sentence as the two federal ones do is a big deal. mandatory mimsndatory minimums . he might be facing mandatory minimums in georgia. also in a state case the president cannot pardon nor can the governor in georgia pardon someone if convicted. pardon me. so under the f