@GottaLaff I'm no lawyer, but this strategic delay seems quite explicable. DJT's lawyers are so artful at gaming our criminal justice system. But what would you expect, given their boss?
Bragg also filed several supporting exhibits. The exhibits include an affidavit from prosecutor Chris Conroy, who provides a more detailed account and timeline of the Manhattan DA’s efforts to obtain discovery materials from federal prosecutors in SDNY.
“Although that review is still ongoing, the People now have good reason to believe that this production contains only limited materials relevant to the subject matter of this case and that have not previously been disclosed to defendant: fewer than an estimated 270 documents, most of which are inculpatory and corroborative of existing evidence…”
“The overwhelming majority of the production is entirely immaterial, duplicative or substantially duplicative of previously disclosed materials, or cumulative of evidence concerning Michael Cohen's unrelated federal convictions that defendant has been on notice about for months. Given the limited amount of new information in the recent productions and the USAO's completion of its productions, no relief beyond the adjournment already ordered by the Court is warranted.”
As widely suspected, the discovery in ques appears to relate to Michael Cohen —incl phone data that SDNY declined to provide bc it was "unduly burdensome" & DA obtained his phones by consent.
"USAO did not provide DANY w data from Cohen's phones in resp to our requests. In course of USAO's productions, DANY followed up, incl on Jan 31, 2023 & February 6, 2023, to repeat our requests for data from Cohen's phones that the USAO obtained pursuant to search warrant. [...] “
The USAO declined to provide that information because it would be unduly burdensome and because DANY had obtained the phones by consent."
Once again, the DA casts blame here on Team Trump's "own inexplicable and strategic delay" — not the U.S. Attorney's office for SDNY, an "independent prosecutorial" entity operating in "good faith."