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Trump wants to postpone the January 6 trial until after the 2024 election

2023-08-18 15:51:00, Aktualitet CNA
Trump wants to postpone the January 6 trial until after the 2024 election
Donald Trump

Donald Trump's lawyers have asked the judge overseeing his federal election meddling trial to push back the start date to April 2026, nearly a year after the next presidential election.

The lawyers made the request to U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan after Trump was indicted earlier this month on charges that he conspired to defraud the United States, conspired to obstruct an official proceeding, obstructed an official process and involved in a conspiracy against rights.

Federal prosecutors in the office of special prosecutor Jack Smith had proposed scheduling the trial for early January 2024, saying there was a significant public interest in expediting the prosecution.

"A Jan. 2 trial date would justify the strong public interest in a speedy trial," prosecutors wrote.

"It is hard to imagine a stronger public interest than that in this case in which the defendant — the former president of the United States — is charged with three criminal conspiracies."

In their court filing Thursday, Trump's attorneys argued that a years-long delay was necessary because of the "massive" amount of information they would have to review and because of scheduling conflicts with other criminal cases with him. which Trump faces.

"If we were to print and stack 11.5 million pages of documents, with no gaps between the pages, at 200 pages per inch, the result would be a tower of paper that stretched almost 5,000 meters into the sky. It's taller than the Washington Monument stacked on itself eight times, with nearly a million pages to spare.”/ CNA





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