Much about Donald Trump is unprecedented. For example, that there are four charges against him in four places. What happens if he is sentenced to multiple prison terms? Where is he sitting them down? The star asked a lawyer.
500 inmates sleep on the bare floor, five have already died this year. As in April, when the body of 35-year-old Lashawn Thompson was found: “In a filthy cell, eaten alive by insects and bed bugs,” as his lawyer describes it very impressively. Investigations into such and other incidents and conditions are ongoing, and a “humanitarian crisis” is raging in the Fulton County jail, a government official said recently. Ex-US President Donald Trump will soon be sitting in this jail, or more precisely: a research facility in the middle of Atlanta.
Donald Trump, a prisoner like any other
The indicted former head of state has until August 25 to appear in court in the capital of the “Peach State”. Immediately prior to this, authorities expect he and 18 co-defendants would be held at the Fulton County Jail. Britain’s BBC quotes local sheriff Pat Labat as saying officials are using “normal practices” in the Donald Trump case. His stay there is likely to be brief, unlike some inmates who have to spend many months in the notorious remand prison. For example, because they can’t post bail.
Trump has been charged with attempted voter fraud in Georgia. It is the fourth indictment against the Republican in less than half a year. Specifically, it is about the fact that he and his team are said to have tried to overturn the election result. The state played a key role in the outcome of the 2020 election: Joe Biden won there by a narrow margin of around 12,000 votes. Trump called Georgia’s chief election commissioner shortly after the count and bluntly asked him to “find” enough votes for him to “recalculate” the result.
Does Trump have to serve 136 years?
For prosecutor Fani Willis, this is proof that Donald Trump wanted to falsify the election results, which is why she wants to prosecute him under the “Rico Act” – a law that is usually used to fight criminal gangs. It provides for prison sentences of up to 20 years. The former US President also faces imprisonment if he is convicted in the three other courts of New York (hush money affair), Washington (federal election interference) and Florida (document affair).
Should the unlikely event occur that he has to serve the maximum sentence in each case, that would add up to 136 years in prison – in four different places. But where would he have to serve it? Where the first judgment falls? There, where the most serious crime was tried? In a federal prison or in a state prison? And if in doubt, who would decide?
Lawyer Rodegra: Little to no precedent
The Berlin lawyer Jürgen Rodegra, who is also admitted to the bar in New York, says that starthat in this, hypothetical, case “different forces would work against each other”. “As far as I know, there is little or no precedent.”
It is possible, for example, that the authorities in Georgia argued that a conviction for vote-rigging weighed the most heavily, which is why the sentence had to be served there. But maybe the Federal Department of Justice in the capital Washington will prevail and Trump will have to go to federal prison. “If there is no agreement, the Supreme Court would have to decide in the end.” However, Rodegra assumes that Donald Trump will not be sentenced to prison anyway.
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