Fort Pierce, Florida – Federal trial is scheduled to start on Monday for a man accused of trying to assassinate Donald Trump while he was playing golf in Florida in September 2024.
It is expected that the jury will take three days, as lawyers are wondering about three groups of 60 potential jury. They are trying to find 12 jurors and four alternatives. The opening data is scheduled to start on Thursday, and public prosecutors will start their case immediately after that. The court has prevented four weeks for trial, but lawyers expect that they will need less time.
Here is what to know about the case.
The judge allows Ruth to represent himself
In July, the American boycott judge, Eilen, signed at the request of Ryan Roth to represent himself during his trial, but said that the lawyers appointed by the court need to remain advisers to prepare.
Judge Ruth told that she believed it is a bad idea to represent Ruth himself, but he would not bend. Ruth, who described his teaching as two years of college after obtaining his GED certificate, said Cannon that he understood the potential challenges and will be ready.
Cannon confirmed during a hearing earlier this week that Roth will wear professional work clothes for trial. She also explained to Roth that he would be allowed to use the platform while speaking to the jury or the interrogation of witnesses, but he did not have a free curriculum from the courtroom.
Canon said: “If you make any sudden movements, the guards will take quick and quick measures to respond,” Canon said.
Ruth is a self -designed mercenary leader
Ruth, 59, has been a building worker in North Carolina and moved in recent years to Hawaii. Witnesses told Associated Press that the self -designed mercenary leader, Ruth spoke to anyone listening to his dangerous and violent plans sometimes to include himself into conflicts all over the world.
In the early days of the war in Ukraine, Ruth tried to recruit soldiers from Afghanistan, Moldova and Taiwan to fight the Russians. In his hometown of Greensburo, North Carolina, he was arrested in 2002 on charges of stopping traffic and fortifying himself from the officers carrying a fully automatic machine gun and “a weapon of mass destruction”, which turned into an explosion with a 10 -inch length.
In 2010, the police looked at an owned warehouse and found more than 100 stolen elements, from energy tools and construction supplies to kayak boats and spa basins. In both the two criminal cases, the rulers gave Ruth either under observation or a suspended penalty.
Ruth is accused of trying to assassinate
The authorities said that Roth tried to assassinate Trump, the presidential candidate for the presidency, while the golf played at the Golf Club in West Palm Beach.
Ruth faces five charges of felony in the Federal Pierce Court. It includes an attempt to assassinate a major presidential candidate; Having a firearm to carry out a violent crime; Assault on a federal officer; A criminal in the possession of a firearm and ammunition; And possess a firearm with a blurring serial number.
In addition to federal charges, Ruth also acknowledged that he was not guilty of state charges of terrorism and attempted murder.
The same judge presided over the Trump case
The cannon is the same judge who heads another high-level case that involves Trump-the issue of classified documents.
Last year, Canon sided with Trump’s lawyers who said that the private lawyer who had been charged was appointed illegally by the US Department of Justice. The Cannon Ruling on a criminal case stated that at that time was widely submitted, which was widely considered the most legal threat faced by the president before returning to his position last January.
The former federal prosecutor was nominated on the bench by Trump in 2020.
Trump was not injured by Ruth
Trump was unbroken, and there is no evidence that Ruth fired his weapon at the golf field. The secret service agents in the United States are stationed on a few holes in which Trump’s golf plays, noticing a AK gun mainly sticking to shrubs that lined up about 400 yards. One of the factors fired, the gunman fired the gun and fled in the SUV, leaving the firearm behind it with a backpack, a range used for the target and the GOPRO camera. He was later suspended by law enforcement in a neighboring province.
The alleged assassination attempt took place last September, just nine weeks after Trump survived another attempt in his life in Pennsylvania.
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