CourtHouse News by DAN MCCUE November 3, 2017
A federal judge on Friday proposed a May 7 trial date for President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said she would hear arguments about that date at a hearing scheduled for Nov. 6.
“The parties should be advised that the Court is not inclined to establish a schedule that is subject to periodic continuances; any trial date that is set in this case will be a firm trial date,” the judge said in her two-page order.
The judge’s decision came hours after Special Counsel Robert Mueller informed Berman Jackson that his prosecutors will need three weeks at trial to present their case against the ex-Trump campaign officials.
Responding to request for a time estimate from the judge, Mueller prosecutor Kyle Freeny wrote the government will likely need 15 trial days to present evidence supporting a 12-count indictment unsealed Monday alleging violations of federal money laundering, banking and foreign lobbying laws.
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