The former president's legal team has requested an indefinite delay for the start of his trial in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.
The case is set to proceed in Florida under U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump-appointee who previously made rulings related to the case that were deemed unlawful and beneficial to the former president. She initially set a trial date for August, but a request from the DOJ later pushed the date to December 11. Trump's legal team then requested that the trial be postponed indefinitely, in which he is the leading candidate for the Republican nomination.
Trump's legal team cited potential troubles with seating"an impartial jury" before the election and claimed that Trump would expend a"tremendous amount of time and energy" in carrying out his latest presidential bid. Meanwhile, detractors have countered that Trump hopes that he will be able to have the case dismissed entirely if he is reelected president next year.
Former President Donald Trump is seen following his indictment on federal charges. A former Watergate prosecutor argued on Saturday that Trump's request to delay his classified documents trial indefinitely is"illegal.
"Trump's motion to put off the trial indefinitely is illegal, per se," Sale said, who also represented, the former mayor of New York City, during Trump's first impeachment trial."Under our Speedy Trial Act, the court has to set a date for the trial, and if it's beyond 70 days, which it almost always is, the court has to make a finding that it's in the interest of justice to exclude certain time from that calculation.
"Trump's motion to put off the trial indefinitely is illegal per se. Under our Speedy Trial Act the Court has to set a date for the trial" Former federal prosecutor Jon Sale on Trump's attempt to delay the classified documents trial until after the 2024 election
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