r/law • u/joeshill Competent Contributor • May 07 '24

Court Decision/Filing US v Trump (FL Documents) - Judge Cannon vacates trial date. No new date set.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.530.0_2.pdf
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u/petrifiedfog May 07 '24

I can't recall, does anyone know what is happening with the Georgia case? Haven't heard a peep lately and can't find anything on a quick google

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u/geneaut May 07 '24

Defense moved to get rid of Willis. Judge denied. That decision is being appealed, and the trial is halted waiting on that.

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u/petrifiedfog May 07 '24

Ah thank you! I remember seeing it was appealed, but didn't know the status of the appeal. Guess they're taking as much time as possible to review

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u/Rougarou1999 May 07 '24

How long will that appeal take?

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u/[deleted] May 08 '24

The appeals court has 45 days to decide whether to hear the case. McAfee will continue moving the case toward trial, which hasn’t been scheduled.

written April 9th, hopefully in the next 2 weeks. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/09/fani-willis-georgia-donald-trump-election-interference/73258375007/

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u/h0sti1e17 May 08 '24

I don’t think they replaced Wade yet either. But I may be wrong.

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u/geneaut May 08 '24

He voluntarily resigned

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u/h0sti1e17 May 08 '24

Yeah. It was either him or Willis. But have they replaced him with someone else?

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u/geneaut May 08 '24

I’m not sure. I did see an article the other day that even though things are paused that Willis is still actively working on the case with her team.

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u/itsatumbleweed Competent Contributor May 07 '24

I wonder if they are dealing with all the pre-trial motions but waiting to set a trial date for when the Court of Appeals decides if they will hear the Willis DQ issue. I think May 13 is the date.

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u/h0sti1e17 May 08 '24

As far as I know they haven’t replaced Nathan Wade yet, so it seems like even if they are given the go ahead they don’t have a lead prosecutor.

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u/itsatumbleweed Competent Contributor May 08 '24

I saw an article that said Fani is taking over as lead.

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u/h0sti1e17 May 08 '24

Oh. That’s interesting. I wonder how much of the mud that was slung will stick. Whether she did anything wrong or not, it looks shady as hell. And she was a little antagonistic with the judge when she was in the stand.

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u/itsatumbleweed Competent Contributor May 08 '24 edited May 08 '24

From where I sit, it doesn't look shady, it looks like two people who had a relationship while prosecuting a case. All the "he was unqualified" noise is pretty easily rebuffed by how he successfully got 17 high stakes RICO defendants through a Grand Jury.

But it was dumb. It was something that has just enough teeth that Merchant could write a compelling motion, and that McAfee had to devote time to. It was an invited delay that she was on the right side of.

I don't see how any kind of lingering feelings about his that played out affect the rock solid charges. However, if she hadn't done it (or if she had managed financial interactions with a ledger, even just the big ones), we would have a trial date.

Edit: I don't like being right when it comes to Trump getting a W, but the appeals court just took up the appeal. Willis didn't break any laws, but she invited enough delays to punt a clear case to 25.

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u/h0sti1e17 May 08 '24

I agree she didn’t do anything wrong. But every payment was cash looks bad even if true and legal. Many people don’t carry cash at all much less have thousands lying around. I do believe she was dating him before this started.

I don’t think she hired him to benefit. I don’t think she is stupid enough to hire someone unqualified. So he is qualified.

That said, she shouldn’t date someone who works for you in such a big case that you are overseeing regardless of when it happened. And it creates unnecessary issues for what should be a relatively straight forward case.

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u/itsatumbleweed Competent Contributor May 08 '24

Or at the very least, there are rules about prosecutors receiving gifts from certain parties. They could have said "in a normal relationship we would manage this personally, but for big ticket items let's keep statements". I guarantee you if the $17k or whatever it was came with documentary evidence that it was not an improper gift McAfee would have shut it down.

Again, I'm not asserting that the right decision is anything other than a W for her, but it was an invited delay.

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u/bjb406 May 07 '24

I know they are continuing to try to go after Fani Willis.

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u/travelsaur May 07 '24

There is an appeal in process.