A Georgia judge this week set a trial date for Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, two of the 19 defendants who are charged with participating in a racketeering conspiracy aimed at keeping Donald Trump in power after the 2020 presidential election. Unless other defendants succeed in moving the case to federal court, Powell and Chesebro will be tried together in Fulton County beginning on October 23, a month and a half from now.
Powell, a conspiracy theorist who was a member of the "elite strike force team" that aimed to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election, and Chesebro, another attorney who advised the Trump campaign, both invoked the right to a speedy trial under Georgia law. But neither wanted to be tried along with the other. They argued that such a trial would entail copious evidence concerning conduct they had nothing to do with, creating confusion for jurors charged with determining each defendant's guilt or innocence.
