China News Service, September 7 (Xinhua) According to comprehensive US media reports, on the 6th local time, the Fulton County High Court in Georgia, the United States, held a hearing on the case of former US President Trump trying to overturn the results of the Georgia election in the 2020 US presidential election. .
At the hearing that day, special prosecutor Nathan Wade said that if all co-defendants were tried together, the trial of the case is expected to take four months. Trump and 18 others are co-defendants in the case.
Wade said: “The trial of these 19 defendants will take four months, not including jury selection. Of course, it also depends on whether the defendants choose to testify. But our estimate is four months. “
According to the US “Capitol Hill” report, on the 6th local time, prosecutors in Georgia stated that they planned to call at least 150 witnesses to investigate this widespread election interference case.
According to CNN, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee made a ruling during the hearing against Trump’s former lawyer Sidney Powell and another The trial for attorney Kenneth Chesbro will be held on October 23. He denied a motion for separate trials for the two men.
Georgia District Attorney Fannie Willis has previously stated that he hopes the court will try all the defendants in this case together in October, but the two defendants in the case, Powell and Chesbrough, want the defendants in this case to be tried separately, and Motion for speedy trial filed.
The report also said that Trump and many other defendants in this case said that they would not be ready to go to trial according to the advanced timetable.
(Original title: The US state of Georgia plans to call 150 witnesses for a hearing on the Trump case)
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2023-09-07 17:25:00
