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US judge schedules trial date for May 2024 in Trump's classified documents case

Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Council Bluffs, Iowa, US on July 7, 2023. © Scott Morgan, Reuters

A federal judge in Florida has scheduled a trial date for next May for former President Donald Trump in a case charging him with illegally retaining hundreds of classified documents.

The May 20, 2024, trial date, set Friday by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, is a compromise between a request from prosecutors to set the trial for this December and a bid by defense lawyers to put it off indefinitely until sometime after the 2024 presidential election.

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