Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks throughout a information convention in Atlanta on Aug. 14.

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks throughout a information convention in Atlanta on Aug. 14.

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Prosecutors in Georgia have proposed a begin date of Aug. 5, 2024, for the remaining defendants within the 2020 election interference case, together with former President Donald Trump.

That can be a couple of weeks after the Republican National Convention. Trump stays the frontrunner to be his celebration’s presidential nominee subsequent 12 months.

And a monthslong trial starting in August 2024 may stretch past the overall election.

In a court filing Friday, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis wrote: “This proposed trial date balances potential delays from Defendant Trump’s other criminal trials in sister sovereigns and the other Defendants’ constitutional speedy trial rights.”

Apart from the Georgia case, the previous president faces six scheduled criminal and civil trials. That consists of the continued civil business fraud case in New York.

The Georgia defendants will reply to the prosecutors’ proposal, after which the Fulton County choose will set a trial date.

When requested in regards to the trial schedule, Willis said at a Washington Post event earlier this week that she would not “expect that we will conclude until the winter or the very early part of 2025.” That would imply the trial would run previous the November 2024 election.

An August 2024 trial would additionally mark a 12 months after indictments had been handed up within the sweeping racketeering case stemming from a failed try and overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Four defendants out of 19 have already pleaded responsible. Snippets of movies of these defendants had been just lately leaked to media retailers, main the choose on Thursday to issue a limited protective order shielding evidence.