Jack Smith urges Mar-a-Lago judge not to make government cave to Trump's discovery demands, 'corrects' defense theories
Source: Law & Crime
Apr 22nd, 2024, 6:00 pm
Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday implored the judge in charge of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents case not to force the government into complying with defense discovery motions.
In January, attorneys for the 45th president accused Smith and his office of myriad discovery violations in a rambling defense filing that also asserted that the genesis of the federal Florida case could be traced to “politically motivated operatives” within President Joe Biden’s administration who launched a “crusade” against their client to hamstring his chances in the 2024 presidential election.
In the government’s response in opposition, Smith aims to methodically pick apart each theory floated by the defense — while trying to convince U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that the alleged discovery violations are not only misplaced but irrelevant to the case.
“The defendants have received substantial, timely, and thorough discovery in this case,” the government’s response begins. “By early September 2023, the Government had provided the defendants with over 1.28 million pages of unclassified discovery and all of the CCTV footage obtained in the investigation; since then, the Government has supplemented its production as necessary. This production not only complies with the Government’s constitutional and rule-based discovery obligations; it goes far beyond.”
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Full headline: ‘Unprecedented defiance’: Jack Smith urges Mar-a-Lago judge not to make government cave to Trump’s discovery demands, ‘corrects’ defense theories one by one
Link to filing (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.470.0.pdf
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