A majority of Americans want Donald Trump to stand trial before the Republican primaries begin early next year, but one legal expert confidently predicted that wouldn't happen.
New polling shows 57 percent of respondents, including 42 percent of Republicans, want the trial to take place before the GOP primaries start, but MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos believes the former president's attorneys will successfully delay the trial into next year.
"There's no way, and I'll tell you why," Cevallos said. "The Speedy Trial Act requires that starting at indictment, the clock begins, and all cases must be brought to trial within 70 days. Now, I added 11 footnotes of exceptions to that rule in a standard federal case. For example, if the defense starts filing motions, dispositive motions, motions to throw a case out, the judge has to decide the motions, they have to be briefed. That could add time to the -- that could waive, essentially, the Speedy Trial Act. That will add time to the case. In addition, you have security issues with putting a trial together. You're probably going to have to clear the entire courthouse."
Trump faces New York fraud charges and federal charges for mishandling classified materials, and Cevallos doesn't expect either one to begin before 2024.
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"Everything moves glacially in whether it is federal or state court," Cevallos said. "Federal court moves faster than state court. It's a safe bet that Trump's federal case will come to trial before his New York case. That's because, simply, the New York courts are much more clogged. They take longer to get to trial. In federal court, they move very quickly. That being said, this is a complex, sprawling case. Walt Nauta hasn't been arraigned yet, just to give you an idea. All the best laid plans, even in federal court where they're much more efficient, they simply don't pan out because unexpected things happen. For example, how many weeks has it been and Walt Nauta hasn't been arraigned? That was supposed to happen right away. To give that as an example, that's supposed to happen immediately after the indictment comes out, and it hasn't happened for one of the co-defendants."
"So the expectation that this case would be tried in this calendar year, it's just not going to happen," Cevallos added. "There's no way, it can't happen. We haven't even started the dispositive motions, and those are coming, believe me. Donald Trump's team is going file any number of motions to throw this case out entirely, so once those begin, that'll maybe give us a better idea, but it's not happening in this calendar year. Save the tape -- maybe don't save the tape, but save the tape."
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