The
proposed March 4 trial date is one day before Super Tuesday,
during which voters in more than a dozen states are set to cast
their ballots for the Republican presidential nomination.
Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, submitted her
recommendation in a court filing on Wednesday, which also said
that initial appearances for the various defendants charged in
the Georgia election case should happen during the week of Sept.
5.
Lawyers and a spokesperson for Trump did not immediately return
a request for comment.
A Fulton County grand jury on Tuesday indicted Trump and 18
others, accusing the former president of seeking to undo his
2020 election loss to U.S. President Joe Biden.
Trump is set to be on trial in New York on March 25, 2024, on
separate charges of concealing a hush money payment to a porn
star - a schedule that the former president is certain to raise
in response to the recommended start date in Georgia.
Willis said in Wednesday's filing that the proposed schedule
does "not conflict" with other hearings and trial dates set in
Trump's other criminal cases.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in an interview
with WNYC radio last month -- before Trump was indicted in two
other cases, including Georgia -- that the various judges
involved may "confer" about the schedules.
Trump's attorneys have argued in other criminal cases that any
trial be scheduled until after the November 2024 presidential
election.
He is set to go on trial in Florida in May on charges of
retaining sensitive government documents after leaving office.
U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith's office has also asked a
Washington, D.C., federal judge to schedule a Jan. 2 trial start
date on charges that Trump plotted to overturn his 2020 election
loss. Trump's attorneys face a Thursday deadline to propose
their own trial date in that case.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Jacqueline Thomsen in
Washington; Editing by Caitlin Webber, Grant McCool and Alistair
Bell)
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