Please add your thoughts - When will the Manhattan NY Trump trial begin?

[jgo]

Last edited Tue Apr 4, 2023, 05:51 PM - Edit history (1)

Assuming an indictment, when will the trial begin?

- By the end of 2023?
- By the end of 2024?
- By the end of 2025?
- After 2025?
- There will be a plea deal and the trial will not begin?
- The case will be tossed and the trial will not begin?

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update 4/4/2023 - Based on the Judge's setting the next status hearing for Dec. 2023,
a trial in 2023 is out, and a trial in 2024 seems highly unlikely.
So, a trial in 2025, a trial after 2025, a plea deal, or tossed/shut down, are still theoretical possibilities.

[Celerity]

1. Most 'experts' on MSNBC seem to be of the opinion that it will be a long time (not in 2023) before

an actual trial starts.

[kacekwl]

2. Two weeks.

[BlackSkimmer]

3. Tossed. nt

[Blues Heron]

4. wouldnt it be a mind fuck if he pled guilty?

[Irish_Dem]

5. Yes he might cop a plea to get off the hook.

[Ocelot II]

7. Maybe he could do an Alford plea.

With an Alford plea the defendant maintains his innocence but admits that there is sufficient evidence to convince a jury that he's guilty. It has the same effect as a regular guilty plea but is sometimes used so the defendant can maintain his reputation or, as to sex crimes, avoid being placed on a sex offender list.

[tinrobot]

12. Isn't that the "no contest" defense?

[Ocelot II]

13. They are very similar, and the result is functionally the same.

A defendant who enters an Alford plea pleads guilty but claims to be innocent; with a no contest plea, the defendant accepts whatever punishment the court imposes but doesn’t admit guilt.

[tinrobot]

14. Depending on the charges, that might be the smartest plea

If he's charged with just the low-level felony and nothing else, he probably wouldn't get jail time anyways. Easy way to put it behind him.

But then again, he rarely does the smart thing. We'll see.

[Ocelot II]

6. We don't even know if there will be an indictment

or what charges it might include. The only thing that we can know is that there is a speedy trial rule in NY (and everywhere else). This rule requires the prosecution to establish its readiness for trial within six months after the indictment on a felony charge. However, consideration is given to pretrial motions, so it could be more than six months. It's complicated, see https://www.ils.ny.gov/files/30.30%20Manual%202020.pdf Because of this rule it is likely, but not certain, that a trial will occur within a year.

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. No intelligent person would venture a guess at this stage. Nt

[Ocelot II]

9. The crystal ball is cloudy, as it always is.

At this point we are all just along for the ride. The only thing that might influence the timing of a possible trial is the state's speedy trial rule, and even that is flexible. People make predictions based on wild guesses, ignorance, fog and vapor, and then get mad or disappointed when they don't actually happen; we need to just relax, get out the popcorn and watch.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

10. I wouldn't assume anything, it's all up in the air, wait and see

[tinrobot]

11. I suspect he will be juggling multiple trials this year

And, of course, he'll use that as an excuse to delay, delay, delay.

I'd say early-mid 2024.

[ananda]

15. Indictmas -- some day in the maybe future.

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[jgo]

16. Time for more opinions