Not applicable. The indictments are already handed down.
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He was only handling the arraignment. Reinhart even said that, at the arraignment.
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I am questioning whether the delays due to security concerns will be as long as one year. Unlike other major Espionage Act crimes, there are not multiple charges that Trump revealed sensitive documents to foreign powers. Instead there is one allegation that Trump revealed classified information to Americans. That allegation is backed up by audiotape and eyewitnesses. Hence I think only that one document needs to be seen by the jury. The other classified documents are already identified as to their general content in the indictment. I see no reason that these other classified documents have to be read by the jury. It is not their role nor expertise to determine if those documents should have been classified.
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Cannon Signals Trump To Get Speedy Trial, For Now
He’ll get the quickest slickest delay you’ve ever seen.
But the August trial date at least suggests that Cannon, at this early stage in the matter, is sticking to normal procedures.
Well… sort of…
This looks like a pro forma order that is probably issued as a matter of rote in every criminal case before this judge, if not in the entire division.
The Speedy Trial Act requires that trial be within 70 days, and that the judge “set the case for trial on a day certain … so as to assure a speedy trial.” So there is always an initial setting to meet that requirement.
Delay beyond the 70 days has to be justified as “excluded time” under the Act. Judges prefer to set dates, then let the parties file motions for continuance (for justifiable reasons). Then the judge can grant the motion, set a new date, and “exclude” the extended time.
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Oh, you mean this guy below? Yeah, he sure sounds like he can’t make a decision and has never been able to oversee important criminal cases where the perps ended in prison (Wikipedia):
In 1993, Garland joined the new Clinton administration as deputy assistant attorney general in the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice.[3] The following year, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick – a key mentor of Garland’s[25] – asked Garland to be her principal associate deputy attorney general.[3][26]
In that role, Garland’s responsibilities included the supervision of high-profile domestic-terrorism cases, including the Oklahoma City bombing, Ted Kaczynski (also known as the “Unabomber”), and the Atlanta Olympics bombings.[3][27]
Garland insisted on being sent to Oklahoma City in the aftermath of the attack, in order to examine the crime scene and oversee the investigation in preparation for the prosecution.[28] He represented the government at the preliminary hearings of the two main defendants, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.[28] Garland offered to lead the trial team, but could not because he was needed at the Justice Department headquarters. Instead, he helped pick the team and supervised it from Washington, D.C., where he was involved in major decisions, including the choice to seek the death penalty for McVeigh and Nichols.[28] Garland won praise for his work on the case from the Republican Governor of Oklahoma, Frank Keating.[3]
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It was a different magistrate (Goodman?) doing the arraignment. But yeah, it’s loosey cannon’s shitshow from here on.
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That allegation remains an allegation. It was not charged, perhaps because it took place in bedmingy, NJ, and the special counsel would likely prefer to charge and try that one in not-florida. As for the 31 charges of wilfully retaining NDI, the prosecution needs to prove to the jury that A) they are indeed national defense information and B) that the government did seek to protect them. That someone in authority did classify them is sufficient for B.
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Doh. You are correct. Had a early morning no-caffine ingested yet moment.
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Why are lawyers able to just slow boat their jobs to begin with? In any job I’ve ever worked, if I said it would take a year to deal with a single customer or set of issues, then I’d just be skipped over for someone who wouldn’t take an absurd amount of time.
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Reminds me of a comedian who had a bit about who if other jobs were like automechnics things would get pretty crazy. Like ordering a meal at a resurant:
Chef comes out fo the kitchen 2 hours after you place your order: “Well, that steak was a little harder to cook than we thought, and we had to send out for some new meat because we didn’t have that t-bone in the refrigerator, so it will be $400 not the $30 listed on the menu."
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Yes, that’s the guy. You did a lot of homework for this.
As I said, common personality type. When they get into mgmt., drives subordinates nuts. And, it can really hurt the company in so many instances.
One of the most common complaints against bad mgrs. is “I can’t get a decision from him/her”. I’ve been there myself. I’ve never worked in govnt, except for the Army. Even in the Army, I’ve had numb nuts OICs who dragged their feet on signing off on a report I wrote that had to get out.
Nobody with that behavior in a leadership job should be promoted or hired into another leadership role.
Thank you. You’re right. Dude’s never paid a debt. A defendant who says he’s gonna reward you. Just like how he rewarded all those contractors in Atlantic City.
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Cause their job is to keep their client out of prison?
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One thing for sure about Cannon: she will be in all the history books.
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Cannon is just a sensible knave. Biding her time.
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To support Trump after these types of rants actually symbolizes a deep sycophancy…it’s permissible, but less so with people with more objective thinking.
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Sorry, a Judge does not WORK FOR A DEFENDANT! A judge must remain a neutral arbiter of the law. Period! And Judge Cannon needs to demonstrate that she remembers that.
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The 11th circuit kicked her ass pretty hard in it’s ruling, so that’s probably the reason.
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You and I know that. But I’m not sure Judge Cannon received the memo. I hope she has a sudden spasm of conscience.