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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsManafort Lawyers Complain About How Much Evidence Mueller Has in Next Trial
by Ronn Blitzer | 8:33 am, August 17th, 2018
The jury is deliberating in Paul Manaforts bank and tax fraud trial in Virginia federal court. Meanwhile, his money laundering trial in Washington, D.C. is rapidly approaching, and his legal team is starting to feel a time crunch. In a court filing on Thursday, they asked for a time extension for them to file a joint pretrial statement with prosecutors. One of the reasons they gave for the extension is that there isnt enough time for them to go through the extensive list pieces of potential evidence that Special Counsel Robert Muellers office has provided.
To date, the Special Counsel has provided counsel with well over 1000 proposed exhibits, the court filing said, noting that most of them were not part of Manaforts current trial in Virginia, despite both cases being related to Manaforts work in Ukraine. To compare, Muellers evidence list in the Virginia case included more than 500 exhibits. Manforts lawyers pointed out in a footnote that prosecutors only used about one third of those exhibits during the trial itself, saying, this history strongly suggests that defense counsels review of more than one-thousand proposed exhibits for this casemany of which may be irrelevant for the trial set before this Courtwould take time away from necessary trial preparation.
Manaforts request for an extension also claimed that more time was needed simply because theres no telling when the Virginia case will be wrapped up. The original deadline for the joint pretrial statement was set for this coming Monday, August 20, and Manafort requested an extra week.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson agreed to an extension, just not for as long as Manafort wanted. In an order later on Thursday, she stated that the joint statement must now be filed by August 24, and that by August 21 Muellers office must let Manaforts team know which exhibits from their list they plan on withdrawing, or which they only plan on using for the purpose of impeaching witnesses potential testimony.
The government is encouraged to review the exhibit list closely with an eye towards streamlining the presentation of its case, the judge said.
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Manafort Lawyers Complain About How Much Evidence Mueller Has in Next Trial (Original Post)
DonViejo
Aug 2018
OP
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)1. I think the technical term is
a ton of bricks
mucifer
(23,574 posts)2. That's pretty funny!
I wonder how much they have on trumps finances?
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)3. Typical defense move
They know claiming they need more time will always, unless there is a rare circumstance, get more time.
Judges will almost always comply because if they deny it gives they defense grounds to appeal a loss before the case even starts.
Zambero
(8,974 posts)4. So many crimes, so little time!
It appears that the mountain of accumulated evidence against Manafort is putting the prosecution in the position of having to pick and choose which materials to present and which to ignore.
Wounded Bear
(58,726 posts)5. "Prosecution is trying to make defendant look like a criminal!"
"Unfair!"