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 [View all]

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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.”

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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