There are no charges filed.
There are no charges filed.
EXACTLY. The speedy trial does not take effect till the charges are filed. The judge must be acting on a motion by McCabe’s attorney. They know something is out there and they are trying to defuse it by forcing the prosecutor to rush a charge and bring forth their case now IMO. Judge should have no standing in when charges are brought, unless there has been an indictment or information filed.
That is certainly relevant.
I seem to recall that O.J. Simpson's attorneys saw the benefit of rushing the prosecution so they waived some processes in order to expedite the trial. They succeeded in making the prosecutors appear pretty inept in many areas.
McCabe's lawyers may drive the prosecution to file early and often, resulting in a situation in which McCabe is sure to be convicted of some charges.
If the Trump prosecutors can't be confident of a conviction then they shouldn't be threatening one.
The problem seems to be that the actions taken by many of the anti-Trump conspirators were actions they were authorized to take except for having insufficient justification that they lied about.
A problem I see is that people like McCabe aren't terrified enough to believe that they could die in prison. The Felicity Huffman / Lorie Loughlin situation illustrates what I am talking about. When Loughlin saw Huffman draw two weeks of hard time and recognized that the size of her bribe was perhaps 30 times larger, maybe she did some simple math and didn't like what she saw.
It was a judge who smelled a rat who sentenced the Watergate burglars to heavy sentences, knowing that they were covering up their true motives for having committed the crime. The need to keep the burglars quiet resulted in some of the crimes of Watergate.
That is why Trump's people need to really slam somebody for something so that the other conspirators will see the need to jump ship. Maybe that is why we are hearing about some of the people who mailed stuff to Hillary on her private server. What did they know and when did they know it?