WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Prosecutors in former U.S. President Donald Trump’s election interference case in Georgia requested an Aug. 5, 2024, trial start date, a court filing on Friday showed.
“This proposed trial date balances potential delays from Defendant Trump’s other criminal trials in sister sovereigns and the other defendants’ constitutional speedy trial rights,” Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said.
Judge Scott McAfee, who is presiding over the case, will ultimately set the trial date.
Prosecutors’ preferred timeline would place the trial in the middle of the fall 2024 presidential election campaign. Trump is the frontrunner in the Republican nomination contest to face Democratic President Joe Biden.
Willis said earlier this week that the trial would likely last “many months” and may not conclude until the winter of 2025. (This story has been refiled to say 2024, not 2023, in paragraph 1)
(Reporting by Jasper Ward; editing by Paul Grant and Jonathan Oatis)
