{"id":2644,"date":"2024-11-19T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/judge-denies-jan-6-defendants-bid-to-delay-trial-that-could-straddle-trump-inauguration\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T15:34:00","slug":"judge-denies-jan-6-defendants-bid-to-delay-trial-that-could-straddle-trump-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/judge-denies-jan-6-defendants-bid-to-delay-trial-that-could-straddle-trump-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge denies Jan. 6 defendant\u2019s bid to delay trial that could straddle Trump inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A Jan. 6 defendant facing five felony charges could be on trial at the precise moment power changes hand from President Joe Biden to President-elect Donald Trump \u2014 an uncomfortable prospect for prosecutors bracing for a leadership change that could upend cases stemming from the attack on the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich on Tuesday denied a bid by defendant Michael Picciuto to postpone his Jan. 13 trial into April, who cited the prospect of a pardon from Trump and the potential awkwardness of being on trial at the moment the transfer of power occurs as a reason to delay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe chances of this going a week could easily actually roll into the date of the inauguration itself,\u201d Picciuto\u2019s attorney Jay Crook said.<\/p>\n<p>But Friedrich, a Trump appointee, said the hope for a pardon is \u201centirely speculative in nature.\u201d Trump has not indicated whether any future pardons would extend to all members of the Jan. 6 mob or only those facing misdemeanor charges. And she said she was hopeful that Picciuto\u2019s trial would be over before crashing into the new administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelaying every January 6th case with the expectation that some or all will result in a pardon is an unmanageable suggestion,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>About 200 Jan. 6 defendants have faced trials over the last four years, and Picciuto&#8217;s could be the last if Trump and his new Justice Department leadership act quickly to pull the plug on lingering prosecutions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Jan. 6 defendant facing five felony charges could be on trial at the precise moment power changes hand from President Joe Biden to President-elect Donald Trump \u2014 an uncomfortable prospect for prosecutors bracing for a leadership change that could upend cases stemming from the attack on the Capitol. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}