Chesebro, who was charged alongside Donald Trump and more than a dozen other codefendants with attempting to delay the transfer of power after the 2020 election, was scheduled to stand trial this week. He accepted the offer as jury selection was underway on Friday, and after rejecting an earlier deal.
I’m good with it. The thing is that Powell and Chesebro applied for an early trial, which the other 17 are fine waiting and spending time sifting through the evidence, so the state was accommodating both sets of defendants.
But - all 19 defendants were indicted on the same body of evidence. If the trial next week had gone forward as scheduled, then the second group of defendants would have had a detailed look at the prosecution’s strategy for the trial, and could have planned their defensive strategy to try to make the persecution less effective.
With the Chesebro and Powell trials cancelled, they don’t get that opportunistic detailed look at the prosecution’s strategy and will have to try to counter it in real time. I’m okay with this.
Which honestly is probably why they got an even sweeter deal. At least I really hope that they got a really sweet deal, in that everyone else is going to be hit very hard
Yeah, I also see that. But I think the public interest would have been better served by litigating this case in public next week, rather than waiting for some indeterminate period of time.
I also think that having evidence and arguments presented related to people higher on the chain of responsibility, without their attorneys being able to object to anything, could have served to solidify the case against them when they do go to trial.