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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So maddening - they’re hoping people forget so the perp either walks or is able to plead attempted murder charges way way down - this became a non-story days after it happened and hasn’t been in the news cycle much.
It would be very very different if the perp had tried to assassinate Kamala Harris.
It is complex because they have chosen to make it complex. The criminal case is pretty easy because they caught him right away. Everything else would be to find possible co-conspirators but they do not have to delay his trial to do that. Now, I could see the defense wanting a delay to review everything gathered but he is probably going to end up pleading guilt anyway.
My knee-jerk reaction was to poo-poo this development as well. But maybe, just maybe, they're working to develop a larger conspiracy case involving other people. I'll not hold my breath, but maybe.
No need for a trial if their next hired guys succeed.
Beginning to look a lot like the coverup shenanigans by the FBI of the LBJ assassination of JFK...
Routh will soon meet his version of Jack Ruby...
So when they steal the election again from President Trump, they can dismiss the charges against him, and release him the day after the election?
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