*There’s no question that Donald Trump has more than enough legal drama to navigate, in addition to his 2024 campaign for president.
And while Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis gears up to present her case in Trump’s Georgia racketeering case, there is one issue that threatens to throw her flow off track.
Sharing thoughts in her substack Civil Discourse, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance mentioned that jury selection is the obstacle at hand for Willis. According to Vance, Willis’ tight schedule for finding a panel of Georgia-based jurors ready to hear the historic case could be a problem, according to Rawstory.com
“If the appellate courts don’t move quickly, the trial delays will begin to mount up,” Vance wrote. “Any delays reset the clock with the need for that process to take place before the trial itself can begin.”
Jury selection is not the only thing complicating Willis’ path to the racketeering trial. Special Counsel Jack Smith’s parallel case against Trump, which goes to trial in March 2024, stands to further disrupt things. That proceeding will occur just five months before Willis hopes her case will start.
For Willis’ case, Judge Scott McAfee already indicated that jury selection should begin in February. This all takes place six months before Willis would like the trial to begin.
In Vance’s eyes, the period involving these things might be an optimistic time, considering Trump’s status as a high-profile defendant in a complicated case. To illustrate her point, Vance referenced how long it took to select a jury in another news-grabbing racketeering, the one involving ATL rap star Young Thug.
“Jury selection could eat up a good chunk of time here,” Vance wrote. “It took Willis’ office almost ten months to pick a jury in the RICO trial of the rapper Young Thug. That doesn’t bode well for a fast start with the Fulton County case.”
In Trump’s case, the former president has pleaded not guilty. The situation itself takes advantage of Georgia’s broad RICO laws to argue that Trump aligned with several attorneys and GOP operatives to essentially run an organized crime ring to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Joe Biden’s victory over Trump in that election resulted in numerous reactions on both sides of the political spectrum, with many politicians and constituents voicing their opposition to the election’s results.
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