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There are some parallels between the Trump and Manuel Noriega cases, which both involved sensitive or classified documents.

invoked the notorious Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega in an effort to delay their client's federal trial on charges stemming from Trump's alleged mishandling of classified materials after his presidency.

The tactic is presumably intended to delay the trial's start date. And they're using Noriega, who died in 2017, to do it., in which the federal government sought to try the former Panamanian leader for a sweeping international conspiracy involving foreign heads of state and sensitive intelligence. They wrote,"Indeed, other courts, including a court in this District, have recognized that it is reasonable to delay trial where 'discovery would be both complicated and extensive, covering thousands of documents, many of which are sensitive or classified and therefore subject to elaborate security measures as well as the time-consuming procedures set forth in the Classified Information Procedures Act.'"The defense teams' arguments are multifaceted.

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