Mar-a-Lago judge gives Trump and co-defendants a third extension to reveal expert witnesses in latest blow to Jack Smith
Source: Law & Crime
Jun 11th, 2024, 2:02 pm
Despite the opposition of special counsel Jack Smith, the judge in the Mar-a-Lago case for the third time handed Donald Trump and his co-defendants an extension when it comes to revealing their expert witnesses, this after the former president’s defense team called the New York hush-money trial that ended with 34 felony convictions “challenging” for meeting the previously scheduled Monday deadline.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday said she found “good cause exists for the extension request and that no prejudice to the Special Counsel or to the proceeding will result from granting the relief sought in the Motion,” setting the new expert witness notice deadline for July 8.
“Moving forward, any requests for extension or enlargement must be filed sufficiently in advance of the deadline at issue,” Cannon wrote, acknowledging without getting into specifics that the extension request from Trump, valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira came on the day their notice was due.
In their motion for an extension on behalf of all of the defendants, Trump lawyers told the judge that they “have been diligently working to identify and engage potential expert witnesses, but the process is not complete” — and they cited their representation of Trump in the Manhattan trial as one reason for not being able to meet the deadline.
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