Wall Street Journal: “If history is any indication, some of those charged will be changing their pleas to guilty in coming months after negotiations with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. She has said she is ready to try all the defendants together as soon as next month, and has been amenable in past racketeering cases to allowing some defendants to plead guilty in exchange for lower recommended sentences.
”“About 98% of federal criminal cases get resolved through plea bargaining, and many state court systems have similar statistics…”
“Trump’s co-defendants have already embarked on divergent legal strategies. Three of them—David Shafer, Cathy Latham and Shawn Still—said in court filings they were acting at Trump’s direction when they participated in an alleged ‘alternate elector‘ scheme. Others have asked to be tried separately from Trump and other defendants.”