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BumRushDaShow

(141,726 posts)
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 03:20 AM Oct 3

Prosecutors request indefinite delay in trial for Trump assassination attempt suspect Ryan Routh

Source: ABC News

October 2, 2024, 4:25 PM


Federal prosecutors requested an indefinite delay Wednesday in scheduling the trial for the man charged in an apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course last month, citing a massive amount of evidence they've gathered in the 17 days since Ryan Routh's arrest.

In a filing Wednesday afternoon requesting Florida District Judge Aileen Cannon officially designate Routh's case as "complex," prosecutors revealed new details about the scope of evidence they've amassed as they try to further gain insight into Routh's actions leading up to his suspected attempt to kill Trump.

"Over the past two weeks, the United States has interviewed hundreds of witnesses," prosecutors said in the filing. "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 reportedly have more than 100 outstanding subpoena returns in connection with the investigation, the filing states, and they estimate they have "thousands of videos to review" from the large volume of electronic devices seized thus far.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/prosecutors-request-indefinite-delay-trial-trump-assassination-attempt/story?id=114441982

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Prosecutors request indefinite delay in trial for Trump assassination attempt suspect Ryan Routh (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Oct 3 OP
Interesting to be sure because moniss Oct 3 #1
Nothing in the OP contradicts a crazed loner scenario. But of course it also does not require that scenario. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 3 #2
Do you really think moniss Oct 3 #3
It seems he was stalking tRump for a month. That alone is enough to generate hundreds of contacts Bernardo de La Paz Oct 3 #6
I thought it ironic BumRushDaShow Oct 3 #4
Loose Cannon will probably rule COL Mustard Oct 3 #5
I expect the decision BumRushDaShow Oct 3 #7
That is absolutely not what she is going to be going for. whopis01 Oct 3 #11
Yes indeed there could well be multiple levels to it.nt moniss Oct 3 #8
Indefinite delay, who does that sound like? Clouds Passing Oct 3 #9
Of course.... need to feed all of the MAGA conspiracy theories. Chakaconcarne Oct 3 #10
He has a right to a speedy trial JoseBalow Oct 3 #12

moniss

(5,593 posts)
1. Interesting to be sure because
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 03:28 AM
Oct 3

for days and days the "official" line as hammered at us by the media was that this was the "crazed loner" scenario.

Bernardo de La Paz

(50,856 posts)
2. Nothing in the OP contradicts a crazed loner scenario. But of course it also does not require that scenario. . . . nt
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 03:45 AM
Oct 3

moniss

(5,593 posts)
3. Do you really think
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 05:11 AM
Oct 3

a crazed loner is going to have all these ties to so many places and people that have generated hundreds of subpoenas and a mountain of information to sort through? A loner by definition wouldn't have this large number of people in their life. That's part of my point about calling him a loner. The crazed part we also don't know about. People jumped on that like it was given gospel rather than simply saying "We don't know at this time very much about him." Which obviously was the truth and is now evident by this filing by the prosecutors. But once again the media feels in competition to rush to make immediate, declarative statements of fact when the actual truth is "They don't really know".

How many times have we seen it where media/people start ripping into "social media posts" by a person only to find out they had the wrong person who simply had the same name? These fools in the media feel it is absolute sin to say "I don't know at this time". Everybody has to rush to a meme and then hammer it.

My good heavens have people forgotten what this kind of "rush" by media did to Richard Jewell and how their inability to say "We don't know" rushed them into conduct that turned this man's life upside down?

Bernardo de La Paz

(50,856 posts)
6. It seems he was stalking tRump for a month. That alone is enough to generate hundreds of contacts
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 05:43 AM
Oct 3

I think we are probably agreed that it is too soon for us (and media) to figure it out, absent some leaks. My post indicated that by stating that neither "crazed loner" nor conspiracy are eliminated yet.

BumRushDaShow

(141,726 posts)
4. I thought it ironic
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 05:34 AM
Oct 3

as this appeared to me to be a dig at the judge who got assigned this case, who became the "master of delay" in a Circuit that is supposedly known to embrace being a "rocket docket"... just to see if there is unethical favoritism going on if this delay request is suddenly denied.

COL Mustard

(6,868 posts)
5. Loose Cannon will probably rule
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 05:41 AM
Oct 3

That he has to be executed at once, trial to follow.

We are really in Alice's Wonderland now.

whopis01

(3,721 posts)
11. That is absolutely not what she is going to be going for.
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 08:44 AM
Oct 3

Any opportunity to bring forth evidence (real or otherwise) that implicates Democrats is far too important for her to squander with a quick judgement. The more this can be in the news and described as "uncovering a bigger plot" with hints of ties to Harris or other prominent Democratic figures, the better in Cannon's eyes.

Punishing the would-be assassin will take a back seat to utilizing him for their gain.

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