#case updates

Luigi was uncuffed, wearing his prison jumpsuit. The hearing was scheduled in order to decide if Luigi's federal trail should be delayed until January, 2027 - as per defense's request.

The judge spoke to the defense ex-parte. A letter regarding all this was also filed on 23 March. For now, this letter and the ex-parte communication will be sealed (not available to the public) because they discuss defense's strategies.

Prosecution argued that 2 of Luigi's defense attorneys (Marc Agnifilo and Jacob Kaplan) and should not have taken on new clients (like Harvey Weinstein, whose trial starts on Apr 14) and then use schedule conflicts as an excuse to delay this federal case. Luigi's attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo (who doesn't represent Weinstein) countered that they work on a lot of cases and that Weinstein's case has nothing to do with this one. Especially since Weinstein's trial is scheduled to start in less than 2 weeks.

The judge was reluctant to delay the federal trial until Jan 2027, because the state trial has not yet been adjourned until Sept, as defense expects it to be. We talked more about this previously here:

Judge Garnett said she'll slightly adjust the jury selection schedule and delay the start of opening statements until Oct 26 or Nov 2. Currently, this was supposed to happen on Oct 14. So, there will only be a 12 or 26-day delay in the federal case.

WHAT'S NEXT:

Federal judge set another hearing for Jun 5 to discuss jury questionnaires

Voir Dire in federal case will start on Oct 5 (as opposed to Sept 8)

Defense will likely ask the state judge to delay the state trial

If state trial is delayed, federal trial will be delayed even more

"It's the same trial twice. One plus one is two. Double jeopardy by any commonsense definition."

Read the full Reply Affirmation in Support of Motion here.

My initial thoughts are below.