Former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s attorneys and lawyers for the U.S. government announced Friday that they disagree over whether Flynn is fit for sentencing, CNN reports.
In December 2017, Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications with then-Russian ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak.
Although the government argues that Flynn is ready to be sentenced, and suggest that it take place sometime between Oct. 21 and 23 or Nov. 1 and 15. Flynn’s attorneys contend that they haven’t had enough time to review the case since they were hired earlier this year, and claim that the government is refusing to turn over transcripts, recordings and other data that they need to mount his defense.
“The case is not ready for sentencing,” the defense argued. “As new counsel, we have only recently received the entire file, which occupies 13 hard drives, comprised of more than 300,000 documents, and we are still working with prior counsel to tie up some loose ends. The last of those hard drives was just uploaded to our document review system within the last 30 days. Despite our best efforts, it will still take a significant amount of time to complete our review. More troubling, there is much information that we do not have — and neither did prior counsel. Thus, the defense requests an additional 90 days before the next status report.”
The government’s attorneys responded: “We take very seriously our discovery and disclosure obligations, to include those specifically imposed by the Court in this case… A defendant and his/her cleared counsel in a criminal prosecution may only obtain access to classified U.S. government information when such classified material is deemed both ‘relevant’ and ‘helpful to the defense.’”
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