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.
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.
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.
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!!