The trial was delayed due to the discovery of additional potential evidence.Monday, March 25, 2024 4:27PM
The judge was skeptical on Monday that the case needed to be delayed or dismissed because of a dispute over potential evidence, and called the defense's claims of prosecutorial misconduct "very disconcerting.""You are literally accusing the Manhattan DA's office and the people assigned to this case of prosecutorial misconduct and to make me complicit in it, and you don't have a single cite to support that position," Merchan told defense attorney Todd Blanche.
"No, we are not actively suppressing ... discovery or impeachment materials," Colangelo said, reiterating the claim that most of the documents in question are irrelevant to the case against Trump. Defense attorneys have demanded a lengthier delay of the trial and limits on key testimony or the dismissal of the case based on the new materials, which they said damage the credibility of star witness and former Trump attorney Michael Cohen and contain "exculpatory information that undercuts the People's theory of the case."
"In the Manhattan DA's office, they do what's called open file discovery, which means their practice is to basically turn over every piece of paper that they get in the course of their investigation," former federal prosecutor Josh Naftalis told ABC News. "That's a lot of information for the defense to go through very quickly, so that kind of explains why the DA's office agreed to at least a 30-day extension of the time," former federal prosecutor Jarrod Schaeffer told ABC News.The exact breakdown of the 119,000 pages of documents remains unclear, but the DA's office argues that most of the files are irrelevant to the case or have already been produced.
"My guess is that 30 days is all that Trump's going to get because the volume of documents at issue really isn't that large in the grand scheme of things," Naftalis said. "That doesn't mean that these are all new documents, and there could be substantial overlap."Defense lawyers have accused the DA's office of misconduct in their push for a dismissal of the case, the limiting of key testimony, and a lengthier delay of the trial.
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