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⊱ ۫ ׅ ✧ both lawyers don’t anticipate there being a ton of motions. two motions that ARE mentioned , and are seemingly planned to happen are the jackson deno hearing, and a motion to suppress.

mr allen anticipates somewhere between 2-4 maximum motions.

there was no pending / occurring motions discussed.

⊱ ۫ ׅ ✧ the judge put in order a plea deadline for the last week of july, in any circumstances that colt decided he wanted to take a plea deal.

later on in this hearing, mr allen brings up that after speaking to the court prior to, he objects the plea deal having a deadline. he speaks about how it could end up being a due process argument. the only problem is if the court refuses to allow him to enter in a plea.

the judges response was:

- "a defendant does not have a constitutional right to enter a guilty plea. They have a right to a jury trial"

⊱ ۫ ׅ ✧ the judge hopes that in chances colt does take a plea, they could just get victim impact testimony one time and separate everything else.

mr allen objects this, arguing, "i understand wanting to be mindful of the victims families and having them come back and relive testimony. but by the same token, judge, i think there are some due process issues that that would create. i would want to make sure that anything related directly to colt, were related only to colt and not to any spillover from colin-- and definitely i wouldn't want them in the same room or in the same hearing."

⊱ ۫ ׅ ✧ after stating this , his question to the court was : "if you're setting a deadline for a plea, are you also wanting that to be the sentencing date, if we decide to plea, or are we bifurcating? my request would be to bifurcate the plea date from the actual sentencing date, so that i can pull together all of my mitigation witnesses and have them targeted for one day."

in response to mr.allen’s question, the judge responded on behalf of the court : "I would— so the problem with doing a plea, apart from sentencing is of course it can just be withdrawn as a matter of right.. so if we needed to split that week up, everybody...if people were objecting to the arrangement of just the victim impact testimony once, then we can do colin gray two days and we can do colt gray the next two days. and again, this is just in the event he changes his mind and doesnt want a trial. so, you would.. you should anticipate doing the plea and the sentencing, whether it's the second two days of that week.. or whatever."