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   Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 08:27:37 JST Laffy

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   ⏳N.Y. district attorney #Bragg supports a 30-day delay in Donald #Trump’s hush money trial

   The trial was scheduled to begin on March 25.
   https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-trial-delay-rcna143481

   • HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 repeated this.
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     BronMason For Kamala 2024 (bronakins@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 08:27:36 JST BronMason For Kamala 2024

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     @GottaLaff

     Watching trump’s cases proceed (or in some cases stall), I see writ large how someone with UNLIMITED RESOURCES can manipulate our legal system’s rules, traditions and courtesies intended to engender fairness, especially for a criminal defendant, to make the system appear inept and/or corrupt.

     In this case in early 2023 DA Bragg sought from SDNY documents about the Cohen investigation & prosecution, part of which were provided in June 2023 & passed on to trump’s team, who for months raised no issues about sufficiency. They waited till mid-January to subpoena SDNY for more, then agreed to repeated extensions for SDNY to comply. The voluminous subpoenaed documents are just arriving, and more will arrive next week. (Bragg says so far just 172 pages have been found to be relevant to the the upcoming trump trial.) Now trump is accusing Bragg of ethical lapses cuz he didn’t do trump’s lawyers’ homework for them & trying to get the charges dismissed or the trial postponed. SHEESH!

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 12:11:44 JST Laffy

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     3/ Klasfeld:

     Context:

     The DA blames Trump's team for this turn of events.

     "We note that the timing of the current production of additional materials from the USAO is a function of defendant's own delay."

     The defense subpoenaed the USAO again on Jan. 18, 2024 — and "then consented to repeated extensions."

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 12:11:44 JST Laffy

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     4/ Via Anna Bower:

     Bragg's filing notes that Trump has moved for dismissal of his charges in New York based on alleged "discovery violations."

     Here is that motion, which requests dismissal of the indictment or the adjournment of trial for "at least 90 days":

     https://documentcloud.org/documents/24481464-motion-re-discovery-sanctions_redacted

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 12:11:44 JST Laffy

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     5/ Via Emptywheel:

     Folks: I beg of you. Hold off on conspiracy theories about why SDNY delayed discovery in Bragg's case.

     There are about 10 explanations. about 4 are utterly damning--tho some damning of others at DOJ.

     No one knows at this point. Don't be a conspiracy theorist.

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 12:11:45 JST Laffy

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     2/ Klasfeld:

     They say they asked the U.S. Attorney's office for the docs "more than a yr ago," which that office "previously declined to provide."

     —Then USAO dumped ~73K pgs earlier this mo; then ~31K pgs "yesterday"; & signaled another batch "next wk," on the eve of trial. https://documentcloud.org/documents/24481447-20240314-peoples-notice

     Weissmann:

     What on god’s green earth were the So District fed prosecutors thinking in turning this over so late? If I’m the Manhattan DA, himself a former Southern District prosecutor, I’m LIVID.