Former Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro cannot sever their cases from each other, Judge Scott McAfee ruled in the Georgia election case.
When we recently examined Fani Willis’ sprawling RICO prosecution in Georgia against Donald Trump and 18 others, I made the following observation: “There’s not going to be one 19-defendant trial, and there aren’t going to be 19 single-defendant trials.”
After Wednesday’s state court hearing with Judge Scott McAfee, who’s presiding over the election interference case, it appears that observation will hold true.
It was there that McAfee rejected efforts from lawyers Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro to separate or “sever” their cases from each other. Those two defendants had moved for speedy trials, but they didn’t want to go to trial together. They argued their charges were basically unrelated and that it would therefore be unfair to lump them together in front of the same jury. Though he acknowledged the inconvenience to the defendants of sitting through such a joint trial, McAfee found there wasn’t sufficient legal basis to sever.
