Judge Sets May 2024 Trial Date For Trump’s Docs Case

West Palm Beach’s ABC affiliate reports:

A judge on Friday set a jury trial date of May 20, 2024 for former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case in Fort Pierce. U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon issued a written order, saying the trial will start at 9:30 a.m. on that date.

Trump and co-defendant Walt Nauta have pleaded not guilty to a 38-count indictment that accuses them of conspiring to hide classified documents from Justice Department investigators that were taken from the White House to Mar-a-Lago at the end of Trump’s time in office in January 2021.

Judge Aileen Cannon has pushed to May 2024 the prospective date of former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial over his handling of classified documents after he left office https://t.co/8cBilCezN1

— WSJ Politics (@WSJPolitics) July 21, 2023

Here’s Judge Cannon’s full order explaining her decision for setting trial in USA v Trump on May 20, 2024 and laying out other dates. https://t.co/GOau5wJibh

— Roger Parloff (@rparloff) July 21, 2023

BREAKING: May 20, 2024, trial date set in Trump classified documents case. Judge Cannon’s order means DOJ won’t get to try the case this year as they’d hoped, but it’s a significant setback for Trump, who was angling for a postelection delay. More to come.https://t.co/okxMDGrU9w pic.twitter.com/iP13baqfoK

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) July 21, 2023