WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Particular Counsel Jack Smith on Friday requested a federal decide to delay the beginning of former President Donald Trump’s trial on expenses of willful retention of categorized authorities data and obstruction of justice till Dec. 11, a court docket submitting confirmed.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Choose Aileen Cannon set an preliminary trial date of Aug. 14.
However Smith, within the submitting, stated the Aug. 14 date “would deny counsel for the defendant or the lawyer for the Authorities the cheap time needed for efficient preparation.”
Trump, who’s looking for the Republican nomination for president for the 2024 election, was arraigned in federal court docket in Miami final week, throughout which he pleaded not responsible to expenses he unlawfully stored nationwide safety paperwork when he left workplace and lied to officers who sought to get better them.
(Reporting by Eric Beech; enhancing by Dan Whitcomb and Sandra Maler)