Willis had a deadline of Midnight, Tuesday, September 12th to present her plan to try all 19 defendants at once. She has now done so.
Willis had a deadline of Midnight, Tuesday, September 12th to present her plan to try all 19 defendants at once. She has now done so.
Isn’t that the whole point of a RICO style case, to have a trial for the whole gang of criminals and make every member culpable for actions taken by all members?
Makes it far easier to get shot callers convicted.
It’s more meant to solve a problem in criminal law.
Before RICO, they weren’t able to get the mob bosses, and leadership. They’d never do anything illegal themselves.
They’d get other people to do it, but they themselves were never guilty. “I wouldn’t know anything about that. I was having dinner at Giovanni’s. Plenty of witnesses!”
So, now RICO becomes law, and it closed that loophole.
Sure, trump didn’t sign any sort of fake electors, but he definitely lead a conspiracy to do so. Sure, trump didn’t lead anyone to Jan 6… but he certainly meant to, and would have, and uh, he lead that conspiracy too
And having it all in one trial prevents parallel finger pointing. “That guy in the other trial is the real boss.” Well, you all worked together, so it really doesn’t make much difference who was management and who was a lackey.
Yup.
It’s very useful for sticking it to someone like trump.
Even if he’s the most incompetent wannabe mob boss ever.
Although, Trump did directly ask the governor to “find” extra votes for him. So he is directly complicit in this case.
He did.
Most incompetent wannabe-monster ever, yes.
Lol
RICO for Trump sounds like a perfect fit. If he isn’t convicted & sentenced to prison then our country is truly lost in corruption.
But THAT’S not fair! They spent all that effort having winks and nods with obscure non-direct orders so that they could operate like a mafia with the head being safe. You can’t just try them like a mafia too!!
Yup. And Willis has already run a RICO trial against 35 defendants, although after all the plea deals it ended up at 12 with 11 convictions.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Public_Schools_cheating_scandal
That trial took 8 months and was against school teachers.
Because it’s RICO, the whole story gets to be told for every defendant. Only makes sense to do that fewer times as opposed to more times.
Besides which, the first trial is already scheduled for Oct 23. Everyone gets to hear the whole story at that time, and anyone who is not a defendant on that day doesn’t get the opportunity to object to anything, or have any control over the narrative. If you’re not a defendant on Oct 23, the people who are are going to be talking shit about you and pointing fingers at you, and there’s jack and shit you can do about it.