BREAKING: Judge Delays Manafort Trial Until July 31
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Tierney Sneed | July 23, 2018 3:12 pm
The federal judge presiding over Paul Manafort’s trial in Virginia delayed the start of the trial until July 31. It was scheduled to start Wednesday.
He heard arguments on the delay Monday morning and issued his ruling from the bench Monday afternoon. Manafort has sought a longer delay, but the judge granted a delay of only six days.
At the hearing, Manafort’s attorney Kevin Downing said 120,000 pages of documents had been produced in recent weeks that his team needed more time to review.
In previous court filings, Manafort had also pointed to the mid-June decision by the judge in the D.C. case, where special counsel Robert Mueller has also brought charges, to put Manafort in jail for alleged witness tampering. Manafort’s attorneys argued that Manafort’s detention, at a rural jail some two hours away from the D.C.-metropolitan area, was impeding his trial prep. Ellis responded to that issue by moving Manafort to a jail closer to the Alexandria courthouse — a decision Manafort unsuccessfully sought to reverse.
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