Page 3 - Discovery Material News Today

The government is accusing the embattled Ozy founder of misusing discovery materials in his criminal case to launch a civil lawsuit against other media companies.

US judge denies Gupta's request for murder-for-hire defence materials. Gupta faces charges related to a plot against a Khalistani separatist on US soil

Stage in the proceedings. this all could be part of their appeal after there is a trial and an eventual decision. >> you alluded to this, jessica. the trump attorneys, they said that the large amount of discovery material that they have to go through was one reason they needed a later trial date. how did the prosecution respond to that? >> the prosecution said it and the judge agreed that that significant portions of this was already known to trump and his teams. so, there have been 13 million p...

Bluntly, quote, the defendants proposed order would lead to the public dissemination of discovery material. indeed that is the defendants stated goal. the defendant seeks to use the discovery material to litigate this case in the media. i want to bring in nbcs vaughn hillyard in wyndham, new hampshire, where donald trump will be speaking later today. joyce vance, former u.s. attorney, law professor at the university of alabama and msnbc legal analyst, and matthew dowd, msnbc senior political ana...

Norm, you know judge xchutkan well. >> wolf, its a fascinating draw, randomly selected on the wheel, to get judge tanya chutkan. like me, her background is as a defense lawyer. she was known as a ferocious advocate for defendants in criminal cases at the d.c. public defenders service, which is our nations bring mere public defenders. and so she is attuned -- she didnt just give the government what they wanted, shes very attuned to the needs of the defense. i think shell decide the issues fairly....

And she may or may not do anything at this point. i think that most important is to get the discovery material in the hands of trumps defense counsel so they dont have any way to stall a trial. it appears there have been an exchange of drafts and they couldnt agree upon anything, so theyre going right to the court to get that resolved. >> and is the department of justice right in seeking this protective order that trump could have a chilling effect by posting these sorts of things? >> well, what...

Discovery material it is including to the public. such a restriction is particularly important in this case because defendant the has previously issued public statements on social media regarding witnesses, judges, attorneys and and others associated with legal matters pending against him. now, the post thats being cited there in that legal form is a truth social post where the former president wrote this: if you go after me, im coming after you. smith argued that witnesses and the case itself c...

You know, barb, i just want to talk to you about this. one of the arguments or defenses thats been kind of, i say test ballooned by trumps legal idea, is this idea that chuck smith is going after him for free speech. is this in, anyway, if this protective order is granted, is this, in any way, curbing donald trumps ability to exercise his right to free speech? >> that is such an excellent point, katie, but jack smith is not asking for here is any sort of gag order on donald trump. what theyre in...

Issued an order on the non-classified discovery material that the defense will be obtaining from th prosecution. the order saying that they absolutely cannot use it publicly in any way. donald trump cannot possess a, the lawyers have to possess it donald trump can look at i only in the presence of th lawyers. clearly trying to preven donald trump from taking any o this evidence out onto the campaign trail with him. >> yes, and those are rather expected protective order. i believe that is somethi...

A judge issued a protective order Monday barring Donald Trump from disclosing evidence set to be turned over to him by the government in the classified documents case.