Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have asked a judge to postpone his Florida classified documents trial until after next year’s presidential election
Former President Donald Trump, speaks to reporters as he leaves the courtroom during a lunch break in his civil business fraud trial, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, in New York. until after next year's presidential election, saying they have not received all the records they need to review to prepare his defense.filed late Wednesday, Trump's lawyers urged U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to push back the trial until at least mid-November 2024. The presidential election is set for Nov.
The defense lawyers said they have access to only a “small, temporary facility" in Miami to review classified documents, an arrangement that they say has slowed the process.last week suggested that the Trump team was seeking unreasonable delays in the case. Though they acknowledged a"slightly longer than anticipated timeframe" for certain procedural steps, the prosecutors said it was false to accuse them of delaying the production of evidence in the case.
The Justice Department says it has so far provided about 1.28 million pages of unclassified documents and has turned over the majority of classified evidence that it anticipates producing. By Friday, prosecutors said, they will provide much of the remaining outstanding classified evidence. The indictment accuses Trump of illegally retaining at his Palm Beach, Florida, estate, Mar-a-Lago, reams of classified documents taken with him after he left the White House in 2021 and then repeatedly obstructing government efforts to get the records back. He has pleaded not guilty and has denied any wrongdoing.
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