The federal judge, overseeing the classified documents of Donald Trump, expects to set a test date on Friday, an important decision that can affect whether the former President and the leading Republican candidates face a jury this year, which he recorded the top secret records and hidden them from government investigators.
Fort Pierce, FAL, is currently scheduled for a federal court, currently scheduled to 20 May. But American District Judge Ellen Cannon has already postponed several dates in the first case and indicated that it will re -see the date of the test during an important hearing on Friday.
Prior to the hearing, federal prosecutors on Thursday requested the date of testing of July 8. Defense lawyers said that there was no way to conduct a fair test this year when Trump Republicans are looking to get the nomination of the presidential post, but still proposed on August 12 as a possible date to start a jury selection.
The trial date has given importance to the light of a separate federal case around a separate federal case around a separate federal case in Washington to reverse the 2020 presidential election. The Supreme Court said this week that it would hear arguments at the end of April whether Trump is immune from the prosecution as the former President, it is not clear whether the case was also brought by the special lawyer Jack Smith – could reach the test before the November election.
If the case of Florida classified documents was to be postponed until after the election, and if the Washington election is not a case of sabotage this year, it would mean that the voters will be the heads of the election without two blockbuster federal prosecution – both accuse allegations of hooliganism – resolved by a jury.
The much awaited hearing is the first public in months in the case. This comes when the prosecutors have sought to bare the gravity of the allegations against Trump and on the signs of removing the tension between Smith’s team and the cannon on the question of whether the names of potential witnesses in the case can be revealed by defense on public docket.
Trump faced 40 hooliganism in Florida brought by Special Counsel of Justice Department Jack Smith, who accuses them of retaining after leaving the White House dozens of classified documents in his Mar-e-Lago Estate in Florida and then resumes the government’s demands to return them.
In the recent court filing, the prosecutors have emphasized the scope of criminal conduct that they say that this week, he hopes to prosecute this week, saying “there has never been a case in American history in which a former officer has been engaged in a distant conduct as a trump.”
For example, he alleges that Trump deliberately held the post on some of the most sensitive documents in the country – only the national archives returned a fraction of them on the demand – and then urged his lawyer to hide the records and lie to the FBI that he was no longer in possession. He has also accused of listing employees to remove the surveillance footage that shows the record boxes being transferred around the property.
Trump and his lawyers have denied any wrongdoing. He asked the cannon to dismiss the case last week, citing the same immune theory among other arguments, now being believed by the Supreme Court.
There is a dispute among the issues to be discussed in Friday’s hearing whether the defense lawyers can publicly file on the dock, which is largely unnecessarily proposed that will identify potential witnesses for the government and details of their expected testimony – information given by the prosecutors under a protective order.
The cannon initially allowed the defense lawyers to disclose the witnesses, but the prosecutors urged him to reconsider and said that he had made a “clear error”, he grabbed the order.
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Tucker reported from Washington.