Posted on 10/03/2024 4:08:55 AM PDT by Libloather
Federal prosecutors requested an indefinite delay Wednesday in scheduling the trial for Ryan Routh, the suspect in the second assassination attempt on former President Trump, citing an enormous amount of evidence gathered since his arrest.
In a filing on Wednesday, prosecutors asked Florida District Judge Aileen Cannon to officially designate Routh’s case as “complex.”
Prosecutors revealed the scope of the investigation, which spanned multiple states, involved hundreds of interviews and included hundreds of digital media for review.
“The government has worked diligently since September 15 to investigate the incident. Over the past two weeks, the United States has interviewed hundreds of witnesses,” the filing said. “It has also executed 13 search warrants in Florida, Hawaii, and North Carolina, and seized hundreds of items of evidence, including multiple electronic devices.”
Investigators claimed that they have more than 100 outstanding subpoena returns that are still pending, and they estimate that they have “thousands of videos to review” from the large volume of electronic devices seized.
“All videos, still images, text files, and audio files constitute approximately 4,000 terabytes (4 million gigabytes) of digital review to complete,” the filing said.
The filing noted that the FBI is continuing to conduct forensic tests on evidence, including ballistic testing, and fingerprint and DNA comparisons, saying that the evidence would likely include them preparing several expert witnesses to testify.
Due to the sheer amount of evidence collected, prosecutors asked Cannon for the trial to be delayed indefinitely to allow adequate time for parties to review the discovery and determine which motions need to be filed.
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That said, Article I Section 9 Clause 2 says:
The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.I don't think anyone would disagree that an attempted assassination of a former President and current Presidential candidate is an act of rebellion against the United States. Therefore, suspending the writ of Habeas Corpus for Routh would be Constitutional.
On the other hand, I suppose the same thing could be argued for the indefinite incarceration of the J6 defendants, but in their cases I don't think the "public Safety" requires it as it would with an assassin who was caught in the process. The J6 defendants are not going to "riot" or "attack" the Capitol building again (or any other government building).
-PJ
Occams Razor.
If I am not mistaken, there were a few State of Florida laws violated in this caper. I think the State of Florida should investigate, prosecute and adjudicate, through the punishment phase, all potential STATE violations before it grants the Federal government access to any residual issues.
If I am not mistaken, there were a few State of Florida laws violated in this caper. I think the State of Florida should investigate, prosecute and adjudicate, through the punishment phase, all potential STATE violations before it grants the Federal government access to any residual issues.
That’s the most reasonable explanation. It’s also a conspiracy theory. That means it will be proven true, shortly.
EC
Or the still missing Maxwell Yearick.
Yeah. The simplest explanation is that it is a deep state conspiracy, again. Well, not again, but still.
But the lawfare cases against Trump were put on speed dial.
Most of that is irrelevant. Was he at the golf course? Did he have a gun? Was he waiting for Trump?
If yes, he's guilty. We can sort through all the background crap later.
On the way to he golf course, Trump, not being President and in his private capacity, stopped and bought lemonade from two little girls and their mother and engaged with them in a conspiracy to obstruct justice by operating an unlicensed hot dog stand, which was constructed in an environmentally sensitive area without an environmental impact statement constituting 32 counts of felonies under US Code.
He’s deep state asset, that’s why!
Time enough needs to cover up the government’s role in the assassination attempts.
It’s also likely that the government prosecutors don’t want to be accused of influencing the election by gaining sympathy for Trump.
“All videos, still images, text files, and audio files constitute approximately 4,000 terabytes (4 million gigabytes) of digital review to complete,” the filing said.“
Horse crap. There is enough evidence to convict the schmuck, and there is zero evidence in his defense. No need to go through terabytes of data.
He was on their radar.
4000 terabytes is 2.24 million hours of 1080p video. I’m calling BS on this.
DOJ needs time to eliminate the connection to the would be assassin
In Routh’s case, one would think that the “prosecution” would want to get this to trial ASAP. But I’m no lawyer…
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