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What is the timeline for the trials of Trump's 91 criminal charges?
Executive summary
As of the documents in the provided search results, the 91 criminal counts against Donald Trump were spread across four jurisdictions (New York, federal Southern District of Florida, federal D.C., and Georgia) with widely different procedural timelines: the New York criminal trial began April 15, 2024 and produced a guilty verdict on 34 counts on May 30, 2024 (with sentencing later addressed) [1] [2]. The federal prosecutions by special counsel Jack Smith (D.C. election obstruction and classified documents in Florida) were paused, dismissed, or otherwise altered during and after 2024–2025 developments; the Georgia case has been stalled by prosecutorial conflicts and changes in leadership [3] [4] [5].
1. The New York hush‑money trial set the early public timetable
The Manhattan District Attorney’s case over alleged hush‑money payments moved fastest: the indictment was in spring 2023, the trial began April 15, 2024, and a jury found Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records on May 30, 2024; later procedural developments addressed sentencing and appeals [1] [2] [6]. Reporting and trackers show the New York trial was the only one of the four to actually reach a full jury verdict in that initial cycle [2].
2. Two federal cases under Special Counsel Jack Smith saw stops, appeals and legal shifts
Jack Smith’s prosecutions — the D.C. election‑obstruction indictment and the classified‑documents case in Florida — faced prolonged pretrial litigation over immunity and appointment issues. Judges and appeals courts intervened on scheduling and legal questions; sources report dismissals or pauses in late 2024 and early 2025, with the Justice Department later dropping or withdrawing appeals in some instances, leaving those federal case timetables unsettled or effectively on hold [3] [7] [2].
3. Georgia RICO/election case: scheduled, then bogged down by conflicts and a change in prosecutor
The Fulton County racketeering/election‑interference indictment was moving toward trial but has repeatedly stalled. Four co‑defendants pleaded guilty early; the case slowed in 2024 after Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee found a conflict tied to District Attorney Fani Willis’s relationship with a special‑prosecutor hire and an appeals court later disqualified Willis — leading to months of delay while new prosecutors and court administrators considered who would proceed [4] [5]. Recent reporting shows the Georgia prosecution changing hands and the case “languishing” for months [4] [5].
4. How “91 charges” maps to multiple cases and changing counts
The oft‑cited total of 91 criminal charges aggregates counts from the four separate jurisdictions; however, sources note that across filings and superseding indictments the exact count per case has shifted (for example, the New York trial involved 34 counts, while other indictments added or dropped charges over time) [8] [6]. Some tracking projects list combined totals differently as cases evolve, so the 91‑count figure is an aggregate snapshot rather than a single docket number [8] [6].
5. Calendar trackers and public timetables were provisional and disrupted
Public “master calendars” compiled by legal trackers projected dates through 2024–2025, but the dates proved vulnerable to litigation over immunity, prosecutorial recusals, appeals, and other procedural rulings; for example, Just Security’s master calendar covered August 2024–January 2025 but was periodically updated as cases shifted [9]. Conventional trial scheduling assumptions — that trials will occur on published dates — were repeatedly upended by rulings that paused or dismissed prosecutions or required appellate resolution first [3] [2].
6. Competing legal and political narratives shape perceptions of timing
Media and legal sources disagree on implications of delays: some note that dismissal or pause of federal cases followed legal rulings about appointment or immunity and left the possibility of refiling open [3] [7]; others emphasize that the New York verdict and subsequent appeals made that trial the most concrete milestone [2] [1]. Readers should be aware that prosecutors, defense teams, and courts have incentives — political and institutional — that influence how aggressively dates are pressed or postponed [4] [7].
7. What the current reporting does not specify
Available sources do not provide a single, definitive future timeline that produces trial dates for all remaining charges together; several prosecutors withdrew appeals or paused charges in late 2024–early 2025, leaving open whether or when some counts might be refiled or retried after procedural changes [3] [7]. For up‑to‑the‑minute schedules, courts’ dockets and the involved prosecutors’ offices remain the primary authoritative sources — and the sources here show those dockets changed materially after initial calendars were published [9] [3].
Bottom line: the New York hush‑money case produced the clearest timetable (trial April–May 2024, conviction on 34 counts), while federal and Georgia prosecutions were repeatedly delayed, dismissed or reassigned, so the aggregate “91 charges” timetable remained fluid through the 2024–2025 period [2] [3] [4].