Swansea’s suspended mayor is likely to be tried in Lexington County.

When that will be has not yet been decided.

Mayor Jerald Sanders’ attorney Alexandra Benevento said his defense team has not discussed a trial date with Attorney General Alan Wilson’s office.

Robert Kittle of Wilson’s office said, “We are under a court-run docket system.”

After Sanders’ 2nd appearance, it will go on a list of cases ready for trial.

The court then will set it.

The mayor’s defense team includes former state lawmaker Bakari Sellers.

Benevento told the Lexington County Chronicle that Sellers was not brought in to handle civil rights issues in the case.

She also said the defense does not plan to ask for the trial to be moved out of the county.

Sanders pleaded not guilty to embezzlement charges in July.

Judge Walton McLeod agreed to release Sanders on a personal recognizance bond as he is not a flight risk.

Prosecutor Andrew McAllister of the SC Attorney General’s office did not make an objection.

A county grand jury indicted the mayor, pastor of Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in North. He faces up to 5 years in prison.