Chesebro, who was charged alongside Donald Trump and more than a dozen other codefendants with attempting to delay the transfer of power after the 2020 election, was scheduled to stand trial this week. He accepted the offer as jury selection was underway on Friday, and after rejecting an earlier deal.
If you imagine a mafia RICO case, the mafia boss will order some of his co-defendants to separate their trials so that they can be tried first. This allows the mafia boss and his lawyers to watch the entire prosecution, so that they can prepare for it specifically. They do have all the evidence beforehand, but they don’t know exactly how the case will be presented.
This is according to some lawyers I follow on YouTube. So, just like you don’t get to see the case, Trump also doesn’t get to see the case. So, I think this is a bigger victory for the prosecution than simply getting Chesebro to plead out.
By the way, there are still… what… 16 defendants left? The prosecution’s goal in a RICO case is often to keep flipping the defendants until there are only a few high-profile ones left that can be tried all at once in a single courtroom.
If it’s anything like lawyer shows I’ve watched, the evidence/disocvery can be substantial, and I imagine is 10s of thousands of documents or more.
So sure, they have it all, but like you said, they don’t know how it’s going to be presented.
Something innocent that gets overlooked by the defense could be the start of a trail that becomes the guaranteed win.
Seems like a big win for the prosecution not having to tip any of their hand.
If it’s anything like Matlock, we won’t know the smoking gun that ties the whole case up until just near the end, when Ben has his “ah-ha!” moment.
If it’s anything like recent history, Trump will die peacefully just before he goes to jail.
Which honestly, I’ll take it. Rest in pee
That’s definitely true, but I was very much looking forward to the entire RICO case being litigated and televised sooner rather than later, no matter how many or which defendants were being prosecuted.