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Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys for Noor Salman, the wife of Pulse gunman Omar Mateen, are asking an Orlando federal judge to delay her trial for nine months and push it back to March.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office also is asking a judge to sign an order prohibiting the public release of evidence that the government and defense attorneys collect.
“Unrestricted disclosure of discovery in this case could adversely impact both the privacy of victims and witnesses and the course of the proceedings … due to unnecessary pre-trial disclosure … ” according to paperwork filed by W. Stephen Muldrow, acting United States Attorney for the middle district of Florida, which includes Orlando.
A hearing is scheduled today in the Orlando courtroom of U.S. District Judge Paul Byron.
At Salman’s arraignment last week in Orlando, she pleaded not guilty to aiding and abetting her husband and to obstruction of justice. She is being held without bail. Mateen is the security guard who opened fire at Pulse, a gay nightclub south of downtown Orlando, on June 12, killing 49 people and injuring at least 68 others in the deadliest mass shooting in recent U.S. history.
At Salman’s arraignment, U.S. Magistrate Karla Spaulding set a tentative trial date of June 5, but attorneys for both sides Wednesdayfiled paperwork spelling out a proposed schedule for the exchange of evidence and other pretrial matters.
It recommends that the judge schedule the trial to begin in March 2018 and estimates it would last 25 days.