The suspect in President-elect Donald Trump’s second assassination attempt will not go to trial until September 2025, a US judge said Monday.
Citing the substantial body of evidence in the case, Ryan Routh’s attorneys asked that the trial date of February 10 be postponed.
Aileen Cannon, a U.S. District Judge in Florida, granted a postponement but deemed the defense’s request for one until December 2025 to be unreasonable. Cannon arranged for a jury trial to start on September 8, 2025.
One of the five federal allegations against Routh, 58, is the attempted assassination of a well-known presidential contender.
He is charged with planning to shoot Trump during the presidential campaign by setting up a gun near a Trump-owned golf resort in Florida in September.
Routh entered a not guilty plea.
The judge presiding over the case, Cannon, is the same one who oversaw the criminal case that was later dismissed that accused Trump of unlawfully retaining sensitive papers after his first term.
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