Fort Pierce, Fla. – Prosecutors, other attorneys and observers gathered in federal court Thursday Donald Trump Last year, when he was playing golf in South Florida last year when he was running for the second semester.
Ryan Routh Represent yourself after a U.S. District Judge Erin Cannon Agree to let him dismiss the court-appointed lawyer. But, if needed, they stand in court.
He pleaded not guilty to charges of attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate, assaulting federal officials and several firearm violations.
Until this week, Rouse had been at the hearing, holding it on his wrist and ankle, wearing a tan prison jumpsuit. But before the jurors, Routh wore a sports jacket and tie without restrictions. cannon It has been said that Rous will be allowed to speak to the jury and witnesses on the podium, but he will not be free to control the court.
A team of 12 jurors and four alternates was sworn in federal court in Fort Pierce, Florida. There were four whites, one black, six white women, one black woman in the jury, and the candidates were two whites and two white women. The team was selected from a pool of 180 potential jurors.
The trial began nearly a year after Secret Service agents thwarted his attempt to shoot the Republican presidential candidate. It is expected to run for two or three weeks. The trial began as police searched for the gunman, who killed Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk on a Utah campus on Wednesday, what political leaders called assassination.
The prosecutor said Rolls59, Drawing killing in an orderly manner trump card A few weeks before passing the rifle through the bushes trump card Play golf at his West Palm Beach Country Club on September 15, 2024. Secret Service agents discovered Rolls before trump card Appeared. Officials said Rous aimed the rifle at the fire broker, causing Rous to drop his weapon and run away without firing the shot.
Just nine weeks ago, trump card His life was saved from the Pennsylvania campaign. The gunman fired eight shots, swept a bullet through Trump’s ear, and was then shot by a Secret Service gunman.
cannon It is a judge appointed by Trump trump card Illegal storage of confidential documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach. As the motion piled up for months, the case fell into delays and was eventually dismissed cannon Last year, she concluded that the Justice Department’s special lawyer conducted the investigation trump card Being illegally appointed.
Rolls He is a construction worker in North Carolina who has moved to Hawaii in recent years. A self-proclaimed mercenary leader, Rolls Witnesses told the Associated Press.
In the early days of the Ukrainian War, Rous tried to recruit soldiers from Afghanistan, Moldova and Taiwan to fight the Russians. In his native Greensboro, he was arrested in 2002 for avoiding traffic stops and blocked officers with fully automatic machine guns and “weapons of mass destruction” which turned out to be an explosive, with a 10-inch (25.4 cm) fuse.
