Trump’s March Trial Date In J6 Case Is Likely To Stick

The Washington Post reports:

When former president Donald Trump declared last week that he would appeal a federal judge’s decision to schedule his D.C. election-obstruction trial for March, legal experts quickly shot down the idea. That’s because the date a trial is scheduled is generally not an appealable issue. In addition, the court system is generally loath to scrutinize a judge’s decisions in a criminal case before the trial is completed.

Federal courts have long held — and state courts usually agree — that criminal defendants should not be able to appeal most pretrial decisions until after a trial is over. If they could, their cases would probably drag on much longer before getting to a jury. Appeals courts tend to dislike such appeals, and consider them only in rare instances where a trial judge’s decision might cause harm that cannot be undone by a post-conviction appeal.

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Federal courts have long held that criminal defendants should not be able to appeal most pretrial decisions until after a trial is over.

If they could, their cases would probably drag on much longer before getting to a jury. https://t.co/VwSK8Cgon1

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