What happens now after Donald Trump's guilty verdict and when will he be sentenced?

Mr. Trump's legal team argued unsuccessfully that Fani Willis, the district attorney of Georgia, should not be allowed to bring charges against him and that the grand jury report should be thrown out.

The grand jury spent eight months interviewing some 75 witnesses and last year filed a lengthy report on Mr. Trump's conduct.

Mr. Trump went to a Georgia jail in August to be arrested in connection with the charges, after his bail was set at $200,000 with strict conditions.

The judge has not yet set a trial date for Mr. Trump, but Ms. Willis has proposed that legal proceedings begin on August 5, 2024 for the other defendants.

If successful, that means the trial would begin just months before the U.S. presidential election in November.

That timeline has been thrown into doubt due to allegations that Ms Wallis faces a conflict of interest due to her romantic relationship with lawyer Nathan Wade, whom she hired to run the case.

Mr Wade, who earned almost $700,000 for his work on the case, took the prosecutor on expensive vacations throughout 2022 – including a cruise with his mother. Ms Willis denied any conflict of interest and said she had repaid Mr Wade in cash.

Mr Wade ultimately resigned after a ruling by Judge Scott McAfee, who found no conflict but criticized Ms Willis' “huge” error of judgment and “unprofessional manner” during her testimony.

Mr. Trump then announced that he would challenge the decision not to fire Ms. Willis, which a Georgia appeals court agreed to hear in May.

The developments have further pushed the trial date into the long grass – and if Ms. Willis is removed from the case, Georgia will have to find another prosecution team. A trial before November's presidential election now appears unlikely.

In addition to Georgia, Mr. Trump has been charged with four counts for the events leading up to the riot at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.

In a 45-page indictment filed by special prosecutor Jack Smith, he was accused of attempting to “overturn the legitimate results” of the 2020 presidential election.

He allegedly did so by pressuring officials in swing states where he lost to gather “fake voters” to ignore the popular vote, and by pushing the Justice Department to open election investigations. simulated”.