Sounds pretty one-sided.Robert wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 7:28 am I am not a lawyer, but I listen to lawyers about 4-6 hours a week discuss all this stuff. Meygn Kelly often will have two lawyers that are from the two different camps and they discuss stuff and present each side. It can be quite interesting and illuminating. I also listen to Alan Dershowitz "DerShow." I also listen to Viva Frei(Canadian Lawyer) and Robert Barnes(US Civil Rights Lawyer). I download their podcasts and listen while I work.
I certainly don't have 4-6 hours a week to listen to people on this subject, but I don't think the things you are saying about discovery are true. And if you have 4-6 hours a week to listen to lawyers, perhaps it would be helpful to listen to some other sources?
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-libra ... n-fairness
Trump's team has every right to any evidence that will be used in court against him. They also have the right to this:Discovery is the means by which one party in a legal action seeks to learn as much as possible about the opposing party's case in order to devise an appropriate trial strategy.
So if there's anything that would show that Trump is innocent of the specific charges against him, the DOJ does need to produce it if they are aware of it.The discovery right is limited to evidence in the Government's possession that is both favorable to the defense and material to the issue of guilt or innocence.
They do not have the right to a sprawling, unlimited demand for whatever they can think of, and that would almost certainly require so much time that there could not be a trial. Which is, after all, their goal.