Red McNulty wrote:
From yesterday's news:
On Monday, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis announced an indictment against Trump and 18 others for their alleged attempts to overturn 2020 election results in Georgia.
Trump and the 18 other defendants were accused of violating the
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Anyone found
guilty of violating RICO in Georgia faces a minimum custodial sentence of five years, and a maximum of 20 years.
And this is extraordinarily motivating. People who want to avoid hard time will be very willing to make a plea bargain that drops the RICO charge and are likely to be willing to testify against the mob boss, to earn that bargain.
Of course, the situation is more complicated if the boss is paying your legal bills. (Not that Donald Trump is actually paying those bills; he's just using the money his donors pony up.) And this is even more reason why we may not see the GA case tried before 2026, as defendants move to sever their trials from his. The multiple motions from nearly 20 defendants will likely take years (plural) to sort out.