Most criminal defendants are just arrested and taken to jail, where they may sit for months or even years while they await trial, unless they plead guilty, write ProfCRobertson and Russell M. Gold
, in part because pleading guilty gets them home sooner. For some defendants, the pretrial detention is longer than their actual punishment will be, so pleading guilty resolves the case with credit for time served. But the stain of a conviction stays on their record forever.Because Trump is not sitting in jail, he is well positioned to ask that his trials be postponed far longer than would an ordinary criminal case.
This timing gives Trump’s lawyers nearly a year to prepare arguments in his favor. They can easily meet with their client to do so, something that would be difficult if Trump were incarcerated.For example, after federal prosecutors charged Air Force reservist Jack Teixeira in June 2023 for
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