WTF, federal prosecutors?Trump is facing criminal charges in four distinct cases, but until Thursday, the New York [hush money] case was the only one with a clear trial date [- March 25].
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Trump was charged by the District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office last year with 34 counts of falsifying business records. The charges stem from reimbursements made to Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen for hush money payments he made before the 2016 election to an adult film star alleging an affair with Trump.
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The Manhattan district attorney’s office is willing to delay Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial for up to 30 days, according to a court filing.
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The proposed delay in the New York trial is in order to give Trump’s lawyers time to review new materials turned over by federal prosecutors this week, the DA’s office said.
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Trump’s attorneys have asked to delay the trial by 90 days – or dismiss the case entirely – over recent records productions in the last 10 days from federal prosecutors, according to the district attorney’s letter.
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The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York sent about 31,000 pages of discovery material Wednesday and will have more to share, the new filing states.
“Nonetheless, and although the People are prepared to proceed to trial on March 25, we do not oppose an adjournment in an abundance of caution and to ensure that defendant has sufficient time to review the new materials,” the filing says.
The documents were produced in response to a mid-January subpoena from Trump’s legal team, according to the district attorney’s letter. The district attorney’s office said it’s consenting to the trial delay because of the latest tranche of 31,000 documents that came this week.
CNN
They're not finished?The US attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York declined to comment.
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Prosecutors [in Bragg's office] say Trump chose to wait until January to subpoena more materials from the federal agency and just raised concerns over the federal records this month.
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Trump also wants the judge to preclude testimony from Cohen and Daniels at trial and wait to set a new trial date until federal prosecutors have completely finished turning over documents.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
UPDATE 03/15/2024:
UPDATE 03/15/2024 08:44 pm:
Judge Juan Merchan has pushed the trial to mid-April, following Bragg's consent to a 30-day delay.
So...maybe longer?He also scheduled a hearing for the trial's initial start date, to discuss a motion filed by Trump's attorneys regarding document production in the case.
Merchan said he will set a new trial date “if necessary” when he rules on that motion, meaning it's possible the trial proceedings could be delayed beyond the middle of next month.
NBC
Merchan on Friday directed Trump’s lawyers and Bragg’s office to provide him with a “detailed timeline of the events surrounding the requests for ultimate production of documents” which served “as the basis” of Bragg’s Thursday letter, where he said his office does not oppose a 30-day trial delay.
The judge said the timeline, due Thursday, should include subpoenas, emails, notes and messages in order for “this Court to properly asses who, if anyone, is at fault for the late production of the documents, what prejudice, if any, was suffered by either party and what sanction(s) if any, are appropriate.”
Okay, but what does "simpliciter" mean?
Jesus, George, you're posting on Twitter (X), not a legal forum.
UPDATE 03/21/2024:
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