A federal judge in Florida has scheduled a trial date for next May for former U.S. president Donald Trump in a case charging him with illegally retaining hundreds of classified documents.
The May 20, 2024, trial date, set Friday by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, is a compromise between a request from prosecutors to set the trial for this December and a bid by defence lawyers to schedule it after the 2024 presidential election.
In pushing back the trial from the Dec. 11 start date that the Justice Department had asked for, Cannon wrote that “the government’s proposed schedule is atypically accelerated
