Former President Donald Trump is expected to file a motion to move his Georgia indictment to federal court, which experts said could have some advantages.
The potential advantages for Trump in doing so, attorneys and law professors said, would be the possibility of a more sympathetic jury pool and the potential delays such a move could cause.
Several attorneys and legal experts who spoke to ABC News said Trump may have a better argument in Georgia than he did in New York for moving the case to federal court, but still questioned whether it would be a winning strategy. There is not a lot of precedent to draw on, attorneys said, because the removal statute is not as commonly used in criminal cases as it is in civil cases.
If the case were moved to federal court, it would wind up in the Northern District of Georgia, according to Atlanta-based attorney and trial consultant Denise de La Rue. The motion could take months to resolve, Cunningham said, noting Trump and other defendants could take their cause to the 11th Circuit of Appeals or even to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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