Jack Smith says there is 'no reason' to grant Trump’s delay request in Mar-a-Lago documents trial
Former President Donald Trump's legal team has asked for a seven-month delay in special counsel Jack Smith's Mar-a-Lago documents case, which is scheduled for May 2024. But Smith, in a court filing on Monday, October 9, argued that there is "no reason" why that request should be granted.
Trump and his attorneys, according to The Messenger, want to move the trial from May 2024 until after next year's presidential election. And Smith's office, in their filing, argued, "The defendants provide no credible justification to postpone a trial that is still seven months away."
Smith is prosecuting Trump in two separate cases. The other involves his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and the trial will be held in Washington, D.C. — while the trial in the Mar-a-Lago documents case will take place in Florida.
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In their request to Aileen Cannon — the Trump-appointed federal judge assigned to the case — Trump's lawyers claimed, "The March 4, 2023 trial date in the District of Columbia, and the underlying schedule in that case, currently require President Trump and his lawyers to be in two places at once."
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