The judge in the Mar-a-Lago case kicked off the week by scheduling a hearing for Donald Trump’s co-defendants and their motions to throw out the indictments they face on various grounds.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday called for a non-evidentiary hearing at 10 a.m. on April 19, 11 days from now, on Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira’s and Trump valet Walt Nauta’s motions.
The brief notice said the hearing would address De Oliveira’s motion to dismiss or, short of that, a motion to make special counsel Jack Smith file a bill of particulars, giving the defendant “information about the details of the charges against him that are necessary to the preparation of his defense and to avoid prejudicial surprise at trial.” Cannon said she would also hear arguments on Nauta’s motion for a bill of particulars and motion to dismiss the case for failure to state an offense, for vagueness as applied to him, and based on the rule of lenity.
Notably, the judge said she would issue an order “directing partially redacted filings” of Nauta’s two motions.
While Nauta faces charges of conspiracy to obstruct, false statements to the FBI, and withholding documents, connected to an alleged scheme to delete Mar-a-Lago camera footage and conceal boxes of classified documents from a grand jury, De Oliveira is accused of trying to help Trump “keep classified documents he had taken with him from the White House and to hide and conceal them from a federal grand jury.”
Prosecutors accused him of helping Nauta move some 30 boxes from Trump’s residence to a storage room on June 2, 2022, “the day that Trump Attorney 1 was scheduled to review Trump’s boxes in the Storage Room.”
Trump allegedly spoke with Nauta on the phone hours before his co-defendants moved the boxes containing classified documents, documents that formed the basis of Espionage Act willful retention of national defense information charges against the former president.
Marisa Sarnoff contributed to this report.
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