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The Guardian - US
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Ed Pilkington

Trump’s Georgia election trial could stretch into 2025, says prosecutor

The Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, at a news conference on 14 August 2023.
The Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, said she expected the trial to take ‘many months’ and for the case to be on appeal ‘for years’. Photograph: John Bazemore/AP

The trial in the Georgia racketeering case against Donald Trump and 14 other defendants relating to an alleged conspiracy to subvert the 2020 election could stretch into early 2025, the Fulton county prosecutor, Fani Willis, has said.

In an interview at a global women’s summit held on Tuesday by the Washington Post, Willis said that though she expected the case to be on appeal “for years”, the trial itself would probably take “many months”. She envisioned it ending in “the winter or the very early part of 2025”.

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