Professor Cheryl Bader commented on Trump lawyers using the right to a speedy trial as a defense tactic.
Under federal law, criminal cases must proceed to trial within 70 days unless judges believe there’s a reason to push out that schedule. But the right to a speedy trial is meant to protect the defendant, said Cheryl Bader, a former federal prosecutor and professor at Fordham University School of Law.
So if Trump’s lawyers ask for more time to review evidence or navigate Trump’s schedule around his presidential campaign and other legal entanglements, the judge will give that weight, she said.
“You don’t want to have an appeal that you pushed the defense team to go to trial before they were ready,” Bader said.
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