(08-29-2023 10:34 PM)WKUYG Wrote: (08-29-2023 09:59 PM)tanqtonic Wrote: The issue that Chutkan points out is that the defendant has/ had access to much of the discovery all along. In much of the documents, Trump actually has the documents.
If someone in court asks for a continuance based on 'Judge, *I* have possession of too many of my own documents to review in x months' --- that would be laughed out of court.
I will grant you Smith asked for a very aggressive first date -- Jan 2.
Trump asked for a laughably long time -- 2.5 years.
The judge actually asked them in the hearing if they had *any* other position than the holistically brain dead March 2026 -- they refused.
Given the Trump intransigence on sticking with a laughably long date -- Chutkhan came down with 7 mos. The downside of requesting, and sticking to, a date that is shallowly and excessively long.
Lastly, the issue is 11 million documents. Not in anyway an insurmountable issue in the modern legal world.
Added to that --- about 3 million are Secret Service documents, probably utterly useless to either party.
But included as caution to be over-inclusive.
In addition, probably 90% are duplicates. That is a document, a witness transcript where the witness is describing the document, along with a copy of the document.
You know that was completely bullshite as you typed it....
you going to court with 11 million documents in this time frame because the person you are defending had those papers? You're the lawyer that is fighting the case. Not the defendant. I dont usually call you names but damn you must be a stupid ass lawyer if you would go to court without knowing what the documents the government was going to use. Just because they once were in the procession of the defendant
Do you know what every file says that you have from the last 3 years? Have you actually even read every file you have? Going by what you said, you should and shouldn't need any time to read them. Like I said hatred for Trump makes common freaking sense just go out the damn window.
If the documents are mine or I control them, I cant ***** about them, nor can I ***** about the time about them. Thems been the rules in litigation for a long, long, long time.
No matter how much you want to go name calling. But then again name calling seems to be the special place where many on this forum seem to retreat to in a blind manner. Good for you.
Quote:If 90% are duplicates wouldn't that still be over 6 million (1.1 that were not copies and 9.9 /2)?
Nope -- think multiple duplicates. That is one document for every time it is mentioned by a witness. I suspect that there are probably about 800k documents in total, plus the 3 million superfluous overproduction of all SS documents.
Modern computer discovery with imaging, search, and smart search --- very doable in the time frame. Welcome to the 20th century.
Apparently Smith has already provided pre-done search indexes on both *his* discovery, and on the public documents that he has utilized from the J6 hearings, *and* on the trump sourced documents (that is documents that were in the communication chain for Trump that hey have pulled up) for the documents by a multitude of parameters.
Quote:So lets give you the 3 million SS files (still dont know how you think if the government put them in there they are useless).
I doubt there is *anything* that is really that touches on the case at all in the SS records. Think about the charges. This is all 'Trump tried to reject electoral votes' ---
The government in criminal cases overproduces discovery. The rule is if the prosecutor doesnt turn over exculpatory evidence -- bad news for the prosecution. So when they access them, out of caution they turn them over.
Quote:As for those 3 million if something came up in court and you told the judge, sorry judge I told they were "utterly useless" so now I need time to go over over them.....
Well, Lauro can knock himself out flipping through them. Not the best use of his time I would suspect. But you keep preaching that up there, why dont you.
Quote:the judge would eat you alive and be thinking...dumb***
Considering you dont know the basics of government discovery, I would lay off the ad hom. Or continue to be an asshat pinhead. No skin off my back.