Richard Maike and Richard Anzalone have filed motions to proceed the Infinity2Global prison trial.
The trial is presently scheduled for January seventh, 2019.
The DOJ has opposed the movement and argues that the defendants are attempting to delay trial.
Maike and Anazlone’s respective motions are primarily based on Anzalone’s change of lawyer. Anzalone’s new counsel filed a movement of look on August thirty first.
Regardless of the trial nonetheless being three months away, Anzalone’s lawyer is requesting a continuance ‘to permit ample time for trial preparation‘.
Co-defendant Jason Syn has additionally not too long ago modified attorneys, leading to what the DOJ expects might be one other movement to proceed submitting.
While concurrently asserting it’s ‘loath to conform to a continuance‘, the DOJ nonetheless concedes ‘there are a number of elements which militate in favor of a comparatively temporary continuance of the trial‘.
However not as a result of Richard Anzalone modified attorneys.
Elements cited in assist of a “temporary continuance” by the DOJ embrace
- eager to strive all seven Infinity2Global defendants collectively;
- acknowledgement of “voluminous discovery” and no must rush defendants to trial in what’s a “complicated case”;
- failure of Maike’s earlier attorneys to adjust to a court docket order pertaining to ongoing e mail discovery (over 7000 emails from an account belonging to Maike);
- the probability of a second superseding indictment so as to add extra costs towards the defendants; and
- coordination points ensuing from the DOJ aspiring to name “witnesses from everywhere in the United States”
The said timeframe within the DOJ’s movement is “a couple of months”.
As on the time of publication a call relating to a doable trial continuance has but to be made. Keep tuned…
Replace fifteenth October 2018 – The scheduled January seventh trial has been vacated.