监督的法官格鲁吉亚选举干预案已经将案件分开，下令17名被告——包括前总统唐纳德·特朗普——将不会在10月23日与快速审判被告肯尼斯·切塞布罗和悉尼·鲍威尔一起受审。
斯科特·迈克菲法官(Judge Scott McAfee)表示，将其余17名被告分开是“程序和逻辑上不可避免的”，并不排除以后可能需要“额外分庭”的可能性，这对检察官是一个打击。
然而，法官表示，任何在10月23日之前不放弃快速审判权利的被告都将“立即”加入审判。特朗普已经放弃了他的快速审判权。
富尔顿县地方检察官法妮·威利斯一直在寻求让所有19名被告参与此案一起受审认为多重审判会给法院造成“巨大的压力”。
迈克菲上礼拜命令切塞布罗和鲍威尔在他们提出快速审判请求后于10月23日接受审判。
作为辩护的一部分，Chesebro提出了一项动议，要求d a公开起诉书中提到的30名未被起诉的同谋的身份，检察官在周四的听证会上告诉McAfee，他们会这样做。
根据保护令，这些名字将与国防部共享，因此不会公之于众。
肯尼斯·切塞布罗和西德尼·鲍威尔在富尔顿县监狱预订照片。
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迈克菲还表示愿意让辩护律师获得证人的笔录，这些证人在检察官最初调查中使用的特殊目的大陪审团面前作证，鲍威尔和切塞布罗的律师周四在动议和法庭上表示支持。
法官说他会“慎重考虑”此事...但作为一个初步的想法，至少，它将部分地被授予州政府计划披露的任何证人。”
在听证会的激烈时刻，检察官办公室的一名检察官指控切塞布罗的一名律师先前的不当行为与切塞布罗寻求与大陪审团成员谈话以确定大陪审团程序中是否有任何不当行为有关。
这句话促使切塞布罗律师斯科特·格鲁布曼跳起来，大喊他的协理律师被“诽谤”。
“这是完全不合适的，”格鲁曼告诉法官，为他的合作律师辩护。
麦卡菲法官试图让格鲁曼继续前进，“继续这个问题，”告诉他，“我说这已经结束了。”
但格鲁曼回应道，“我希望你能阻止她诽谤我的协理律师。”
在他的命令从切塞布罗和鲍威尔分离剩余的案件，迈克菲引用了关于正当程序和案件中大量发现的问题。
“法院维护每个被告正当程序权利和准备的能力不稳定，这确保了在当前加速轨道上充分的审前准备非常重要，如果不是决定性的，有利于分离，”他的命令说。
法官还提出了许多关于19人审判的后勤问题，称法院“根本没有足够大的法庭来容纳所有19名被告。”
McAfee表示，法院将“努力”在11月3日之前为10月23日的审判挑选陪审团并宣誓就职。
特朗普和其他18人对所有指控都不认罪全面的敲诈勒索起诉涉嫌试图推翻佐治亚州2020年总统选举的结果。
这位前总统表示，他的行为并不违法，调查是出于政治动机。
Chesebro在DA的起诉书中被指控起草一项战略，使用所谓的“备用选举人”来阻止乔·拜登获得270张选举人票-但他的律师认为，这一行动是合理的，因为Chesebro在为特朗普工作时，“履行了他作为律师对客户的责任。”
鲍威尔被指控与其他共同被告合谋进行选举欺诈，据称他鼓励并帮助人们在咖啡县的选举办公室内篡改选票标记和机器。
听证会后，切塞布罗的律师听起来对法官决定分开审理此案感到高兴。
当被美国广播公司新闻问及对解雇令的反应时，格鲁曼说:“让我们开始吧。”“10月23日来得太快了。”
格鲁曼说，他们已经准备好接受审判，并重申切塞布罗在他的行动中，只是作为特朗普竞选活动的律师。
“切塞布罗先生不是政治家，”格鲁曼说。“切塞布罗是一名律师，他有一份特殊的工作，就某些非常模糊的法律领域为特朗普竞选团队提供建议，这就是他所做的。”
“我们的委托人有权获得快速审判，我们的委托人将获得快速审判，我们不会试图拖延，”格鲁曼说。
Judge severs Trump's Georgia election interference case, and 16 others, from trial starting in October
The judge overseeing theGeorgia election interference casehas severed the case, ordering that 17 defendants -- including former President Donald Trump -- will not be tried alongside speedy trial defendants Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell on Oct. 23.
In a blow to prosecutors, Judge Scott McAfee said severing the remaining 17 defendants was "a procedural and logistical inevitability," and did not rule out the possibility that "additional divisions" may be required later.
The judge, however, said that any defendant who does not waive their right to speedy trial before Oct. 23 will "immediately" join the trial. Trump has already waived his speedy trial rights.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had been seeking to have all 19 defendants in the casestand trial together, arguing that multiple trials would create an "enormous strain" on the court.
McAfeelast weekordered Chesebro and Powell to be tried on Oct. 23 after they filed speedy trial requests.
Chesebro, as part of his defense, had filed a motion asking the DA to disclose the identities of the 30 unindicted co-conspirators referenced in the indictment, and prosecutors told McAfee at a hearing Thursday that they would do so.
The names will be shared with defense under a protective order, so they will not be made public.
McAfee also signaled a willingness to grant defense counsel access to transcripts for the witnesses who testified before the special purpose grand jury used in the DA's original probe, a move that attorneys for Powell and Chesebro endorsed in motions and in court Thursday.
The judge said he would take the matter "under advisement ... but as an initial thought, at a minimum, it's going to be granted in part as to any witnesses the state plans to disclose."
In a heated moment during the hearing, a prosecutor from the DA's office accused one of Chesebro's attorneys of prior inappropriate behavior related to Chesebro's motion seeking to speak to members of the grand jury to determine if there was any impropriety in the grand jury process.
The remark prompted Chesebro attorney Scott Grubman to spring up and yell that his co-counsel was being "defamed."
"That was completely inappropriate," Grubman told the judge in defense of his co-counsel.
Judge McAfee attempted to get Grubman to move on and "stay on the issue," telling him, "I said it's over."
But Grubman responded, "I wish you would have stopped her from defaming my co-counsel."
In his order severing the remaining cases from Chesebro and Powell, McAfee cited issues regarding due process and the voluminous discovery in the case.
"The precarious ability of the Court to safeguard each defendant's due process rights and preparation ensure adequate pretrial preparation on the current accelerated track weights heavily, if not decisively, in favor of severance," his order stated.
The judge also laid out numerous logistical concerns about a 19-person trial, saying the courthouse "simply contained no courtroom adequately large enough to hold all 19 defendants."
McAfee said the court would "endeavor" to have a jury selected and sworn in for the Oct. 23 trial by Nov. 3.
Trump and 18 others have pleaded not guilty to all charges in asweeping racketeering indictmentfor alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia.
The former president says his actions were not illegal and that the investigation is politically motivated.
Chesebro is accused in the DA's indictment of drafting a strategy to use so-called "alternate electors" to prevent Joe Biden from receiving 270 electoral votes -- but his attorneys have argued that the action was justified since Chesebro, in working for Trump, was "fulfilling his duty to his client as an attorney."
Powell is accused of conspiring with other co-defendants to commit election fraud by allegedly encouraging and helping people tamper with ballot markers and machines inside an elections office in Coffee County.
Following the hearing, Chesebro's attorney sounded pleased by the judge's decision to sever the case.
"Let's do it," Grubman said when asked by ABC News for his reaction to the severance order. "Oct. 23 can't come fast enough."
Grubman said they are ready to go to trial, and reiterated that Chesebro, in his actions, was merely acting as a lawyer to the Trump campaign.
"Mr. Chesebro is not a politician," Grubman said. "Mr. Chesebro is an attorney who had a specific job, to advise the Trump campaign on certain very obscure areas of the law, and that's what he did."
"Our client is entitled to a speedy trial, our client is going to get a speedy trial, and we're not going to be the ones to try to delay that," Grubman said.
