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BumRushDaShow

(129,543 posts)
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 04:05 PM Mar 11

Trump lawyers tell Mar-a-Lago judge they need more time to work on NY criminal case as they look to halt that very case

Source: Law & Crime

Mar 11th, 2024, 1:34 pm


Attorneys for President Donald Trump on Monday asked the judge in the Mar-a-Lago case to give them two more weeks to respond to special counsel Jack Smith’s pretrial motions dealing with discovery, citing, among several reasons, a need to prepare for the fast-approaching New York hush-money trial date of March 25. What the filing did not say, however, is that the Trump defense team has separately moved to adjourn the state trial until after the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the “scope of the presidential immunity doctrine.”

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon previously set a deadline of Thursday, March 14, to submit replies on pending pretrial motions and set a hearing on the same morning, a move, among other scheduling moves, that seems to have led to the bottleneck of unresolved motions that Trump lawyers sought relief from on Monday.

Claiming that they “have no intention of causing unnecessary delay in these proceedings,” Trump attorneys asked for an extension until March 24 to respond on issues “regarding the scope of the prosecution team” and discovery. The defense said it was prepared to file replies on motions to dismiss the indictment based on the Presidential Records Act and Espionage Act “unconstitutional vagueness” in time for the March 14 hearing.

“The resolution of the discovery motions is very likely to require supplemental briefing regarding the pretrial motions,” the defense said. “Therefore, we respectfully submit that no actual delay or prejudice to the Office would result from the extensions we are seeking.”

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trump-lawyers-tell-mar-a-lago-judge-they-need-more-time-to-work-on-ny-criminal-case-as-they-look-to-halt-that-very-case-until-after-scotus-rules/



Full headline: Trump lawyers tell Mar-a-Lago judge they need more time to work on NY criminal case as they look to halt that very case until after SCOTUS rules

Links to motions (PDFs) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.386.0.pdf

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24475014/20240307-motion-re-presidential-immunity_redacted.pdf
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Trump lawyers tell Mar-a-Lago judge they need more time to work on NY criminal case as they look to halt that very case (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Mar 11 OP
Maga thinks he's the alpha male. Can't even face his punishment like a man Walleye Mar 11 #1
Seems to me he needs to hire more lawyers for the NY case. brush Mar 11 #2
And this has been in the works now for how long? Ocelot II Mar 11 #3
It'll take the judge a month to render a decision Beachnutt Mar 11 #4
Claiming that they "have no intention of causing unnecessary delay in these proceedings," Ray Bruns Mar 11 #5
my thoughts are that t,,, is doing this to delay things untill after the election if he is elected . AllaN01Bear Mar 11 #6
And trumps puppet judge will say.. republianmushroom Mar 11 #7
The delays are a disgusting denial of justice SouthernDem4ever Mar 11 #8

brush

(53,876 posts)
2. Seems to me he needs to hire more lawyers for the NY case.
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 04:12 PM
Mar 11

That trumper judge will probably see it their way though.

Beachnutt

(7,342 posts)
4. It'll take the judge a month to render a decision
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 04:23 PM
Mar 11

on the 2 week extension and then she'll grant it.
So another month and a half delay.....

Ray Bruns

(4,111 posts)
5. Claiming that they "have no intention of causing unnecessary delay in these proceedings,"
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 04:55 PM
Mar 11

That's why they were hired

SouthernDem4ever

(6,617 posts)
8. The delays are a disgusting denial of justice
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 09:26 PM
Mar 11

And a severe blow to our national security - but obviously Magat Cannon doesn't care

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