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By Jacqueline Thomsen

(Reuters) -Lawyers for Donald Trump on Thursday asked a federal judge in
Washington to schedule an April 2026 trial for the former president, on federal
charges that he allegedly sought to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat
Joe Biden.

That requested date would place the trial after the November 2024 U.S. election,
in which Trump is the front-runner for the Republican nomination.




"The public interest lies in justice and fair trial, not a rush to judgment,"
Trump's attorneys wrote on Thursday.

U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith, whose office is prosecuting the federal 2020
election case against Trump, last Thursday asked U.S. District Judge Tanya
Chutkan to schedule a trial to start on Jan. 2, 2024. That date is two weeks
before the first votes are cast in the 2024 Republican presidential primary.




A spokesperson for Smith on Thursday declined to comment beyond that earlier
court filing.

(Reporting by Jasper Ward, Dan Whitcomb and Jacqueline ThomsenEditing by Don
Durfee and Deepa Babington)






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(NewsNation) — Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of
Idaho students, is in court Friday for a hearing where his defense lawyers
argued they didn’t have all the evidence they needed from prosecutors.

The four students who died, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin and
Madison Mogen, were found at their off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho, last
November. A county coroner determined they died from stab wounds.

Investigators created a DNA profile from a knife sheath, which they say links
Kohberger to the crime, but his defense disputes the nature of the science used
to identify him. Defense attorneys also say that Kohberger was “out driving” at
the time of the killings.

Prosecutors are pushing for the death penalty in Kohberger’s case.

Friday’s court proceedings at Latah County Courthouse dealt with six motions,
including Kohberger’s defense lawyers’ quest for a motion to stay proceedings
and a motion to compel prosecutors to share DNA evidence and the methodology
they used. The defense said it did not have the lab results of three
unidentified male DNA samples, two from within the house and one from outside
the Moscow house. Prosecutors, though, said they provided all they have. 



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“There has to be some level of trust in discovery. You are all sworn attorneys,”
Judge John Judge said. He ordered the prosecution to reach back out to the lab
to ensure there are no other existing documents and results that the defense
does not have.



Stephen Mercer of Maryland, a criminal defense attorney specializing in DNA who
was the defense’s first witness, said forensic evidence is often central to a
case. It is essential, Mercer said, for attorneys to know about the details of
the testing and investigation of DNA evidence.

Mercer said there are pre-trial concerns involving suppression and Fourth
Amendment issues, adding that there has to be a factual investigation of the
conduct law enforcement took during forensic analysis.

The Goncalves family was present at the hearing. Steve Goncalves, Kaylee’s
father, told NewsNation’s Ashleigh Banfield he planned to attend the hearing
with his wife and lawyer. He said this is all about making sure he sees justice
for his daughter and the other victims.

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