US Federal District Decide Aileen Cannon agreed Thursday to postpone the trial date for the legal labeled paperwork retention case in opposition to former US President Donald Trump. Initially, the case was set to proceed to trial on August 14. Nonetheless, beneath Cannon’s new order, the trial is now set to start in Fort Pierce, Florida on Might 20, 2024 and can final roughly two weeks.
Beforehand, Division of Justice Particular Counsel Jack Smith had pushed for a December trial date. Trump’s authorized counsel had countered by filing a motion to indefinitely postpone the trial. Trump argued that the trial needed to be postponed till at the least after the November 2024 presidential election as a result of he’s at the moment a candidate for the Republican Get together nomination.
In her Thursday movement, Cannon chosen a trial date roughly midway between the 2 sides’ advised dates. Cannon rejected Trump’s effort to indefinitely postpone the trial however famous that the federal government’s advised timeline was “atypically accelerated and inconsistent with making certain a good trial.”
In assist of her reasoning, Cannon pointed to the actual fact that there’s a vital quantity of discovery for Trump’s authorized counsel to evaluation. Of their submitting, the protection acknowledged there are over 800,000 pages of data and over 120,000 emails to evaluation, in addition to CCTV footage. Cannon acknowledged that the quantity of doc and video evaluation required on this case would have been troublesome for the protection to parse via by the federal government’s advised December trial date. She additionally famous that the evaluation is made all of the extra difficult by the labeled nature of the invention supplies.
As a result of the trial date was moved, the remainder of the schedule for the trial shifted. Because of this, the following date within the case is slated for July 27, when Cannon will hear pre-trial motions for a protecting order.
Trump is charged with and has pleaded not guilty to 37 legal counts, together with the willful retention of nationwide protection info and conspiracy to impede justice. He’s charged alongside his former aide, Waltine Nauta, who additionally faces and has pleaded not guilty to 6 legal prices.
