# What happens if Trump is indicted in Georgia? (Indicted on August 14, 2023) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [February 17, 2023, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928 "2023-02-17T03:14:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 124
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/2461 "2024-02-17T16:50:44Z")
That you for that. The judge was a bit startled by that left field theory. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/2462 "2024-02-17T17:44:21Z")
He just forgot that Clarence Thomas and Brett Cavanaugh haven’t gotten around to reversing that yet. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/2463 "2024-02-17T17:44:34Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > By going through with wade’s lawyer that wade was married during a series of dates. When the judge asked him where he was going with this line of questioning, the lawyer brought up that adulatory was illegal in Georgia Well, dating is not adultery. The judge would have to allow some very personal questions to get to the actual sex acts. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/2464 "2024-02-17T17:54:50Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Well, dating is not adultery. It is if you do it right. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/2465 "2024-02-18T07:06:40Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > The judge was a bit startled by that left field theory. Please. Right field theory. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/2466 "2024-02-18T07:09:08Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Well, dating is not adultery. The judge would have to allow some very personal questions to get to the actual sex acts. Even so, adultery only goes one way, like if a married woman has sex with a man who is not her husband. A man cannot commit adultery according t9 the bible if memory serves. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/2467 "2024-02-18T07:13:38Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > A man cannot commit adultery according t9 the bible if memory serves. The Bible is less relevant here than the actual Georgia law in question, which reads as follows: > [@](#): > > A married person commits the offense of adultery when he voluntarily has sexual intercourse with a person other than his spouse and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as for a misdemeanor. Though it uses male pronouns, it uses the word “person,” twice, and specifically not “woman” (or, for that matter, “man”). Source: [Georgia Code § 16-6-19 (2022) - Adultery :: 2022 Georgia Code :: US Codes and Statutes :: US Law :: Justia](https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2022/title-16/chapter-6/section-16-6-19/) ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/2468 "2024-02-18T07:34:06Z")
So it is impossible for an unmarried person to commit adultery. Were Willis and Wade both married at the time? ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/2469 "2024-02-18T11:28:57Z")
Wade said that while his divorce was not yet final, his marriage at that point was irretrievably broken. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/2470 "2024-02-18T15:54:21Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > A man cannot commit adultery according t9 the bible This is deeply sad for me, as I engaged in extra-marital sex after my wife and I split up, but before divorce. Being an adulterator was one of the few fun things I could joke about, in an otherwise horrific situation. Mr. Trump, of course, does not share my views. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/2471 "2024-02-18T18:01:17Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > Mr. Trump, of course, does not share my views. I’m sure he would have no problem calling you an adulterer, even ranting and mocking you for it. It’s just not adultery when **he** does it, Besides he never even met Stormy Daniels or whatever her name is. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/2472 "2024-02-18T20:49:17Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Besides he never even met Stormy Daniels or whatever her name is. “Horse face” I think it was. Which is kind of ironic coming from a shitgibbon. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/2473 "2024-02-20T18:32:11Z")
Is there a break in the proceedings? Yesterday, I thought they were adjourned for Presidents Day … but today? … Meanwhile, corroboration for Willis’ testimony made the news cycle this morning: > **[Fani Willis' cash payments revealed as new witness emerges](https://www.newsweek.com/fani-willis-georgia-hearing-nathan-wade-witness-1871517)** > > Fulton County's district attorney attended a hearing last week on whether she will be removed from a Donald Trump case. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/2474 "2024-02-20T19:34:34Z")
i believe the judge is dealing with the attorney/client question. if i remember properly he is meeting with mr wade’s former partner/attorney “in camera” this week. i did remember properly: Ultimately, McAfee determined that the exception applies only when “by preponderance we found that communications made in the existence of a relationship or in furtherance of a crime” or that the client knew the attorney was being used to further a crime—and that this was not established by the defense. He said he would meet with Bradley “ex parte in camera,” which means he will provide testimony in a closed-door meeting to discuss communications. He noted that there is “some uncertainty” about whether everything Bradley knows about the relationship was learned through communications with Wade as his divorce attorney. Once the hearing concludes, McAfee will determine whether Willis will be removed from the case. If she is, the case would not be dismissed. Instead, another district attorney or state Attorney General Christopher Carr, a Republican, could take over the prosecution. [Judge to Meet With Fani Willis Witness Behind Closed Doors (msn.com)](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/judge-to-meet-with-fani-willis-witness-behind-closed-doors/ar-BB1ioRrA) perhaps a ruling either this week or next? ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/2475 "2024-02-21T18:15:58Z")
What is the standard of proof that Judge McAfee has to use to evaluate the issue of Willis’ removal from the prosecution and the status of the case against Trump and the others? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/2476 "2024-02-21T18:27:04Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > Attorney General Christopher Carr, a Republican, could take over the prosecution. A sealed deal if Willis is removed? Curous about him. Along with the usual GOP stance against ACA, this more concerning tidbit from wiki: > [@](#): > > Carr supported legislation in Georgia to revise voting regulations.[[11]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_M._Carr#cite_note-11) Carr was chair of the [Republican Attorneys General Association](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Attorneys_General_Association), an organization that sent robocalls on January 6, 2021, urging supporters to march to Washington to dispute the certification of the election results in which Joe Biden won.[[12]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_M._Carr#cite_note-12) Carr resigned as chair of the organization in April 2021 over his opposition to the robocall, saying he had a "fundamental difference of opinion” with others in the organization that began with “vastly opposite views of the significance of the events of January 6.” Right - so, a “fundamenatal difference of opinon” means this fucking slimeball is still digging in his heels over the apparently illegitimate 2020 election results, as well as what Jan. 6 ‘was really about’. Seems like a nice judge. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/2477 "2024-02-21T18:27:48Z")
Next, the defense will move to have Fani Willis removed from the case because, while she may or may not have been biased at the outset, all the extraneous bullshit has definitely destroyed her ability to be impartial. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/2478 "2024-02-21T19:23:05Z")
The defense can claim that (strictly for the consumption by the Maganauts) but the prosecution/prosecutor is supposed to be partial; “hang 'em high!” ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/2479 "2024-02-22T03:41:16Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Right - so, a “fundamenatal difference of opinon” means this fucking slimeball is still digging in his heels over the apparently illegitimate 2020 election results, as well as what Jan. 6 ‘was really about’. Huh. I read that the other way. The RAGA sponsored a robocall urging participation in the rally that ended up being Jan. 6. Carr resigned as Chair because he disagreed with the decision to go forward with the robocalls over a “fundamental difference of opinion”. It sounds to me like he was against 1/6 because he thought the election was on the up-on-up. But YMM(and obviously does)V. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/2480 "2024-02-22T19:14:51Z")
Ugh, yeah, it’s looking like your takeaway could be the correct one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928.md?page=123) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928.md?page=125)