The man accused of trying to kill President Donald Trump last year on his golf course in Florida began his trial on Monday and, in the face of the perspective of disbursement of life, he chose to fire his legal team and defend himself in court.
Ryan Ruth, 59, faces five accusations, including the murder attempt of an important presidential candidate. Public ministries said they had hidden with a rifle near the sixth green of the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, with the intention of shooting Trump during a golf match in the last few weeks of the 2024 campaign.
A secret service agent of the United States identified Ruth hidden in the row of trees and opened fire, running away Ruth before shooting, according to the court documents.
Ruth declared himself innocent of all the accusations.
The trial at the Federal Court of Fort Pierce, Florida, which started with the selection of the jury on Monday, will probably provide a detailed report of what public ministries claim to have been the second attack on Trump’s life for a period of two months. The shooter of the first attack, who wounded Trump in his ear, was killed on the scene.
It is also likely that it will be tested as regards Reth, a roof contractor difficult to give with a bogytical defense of vulnerable democracies, including Ukraine and Taiwan, can go to transform the process into a forum for its opinions.
The judge of the American district Aileen Cannon, who supervises the case, rejected on Monday the questions proposed by Routh to the possible jurors of the case, classifying them as “very wrong” and irrelevant to the process. The questions, Cannon said, included questions about the activism of pro-Palestinian students and the support of Trump for Greenland taken from the United States.
Since he fired his team of public defenders in July, Routh has used legal documents to propose a “intimidation session” with Trump, he suggested the opportunity to exchange with a prisoner maintained by China or Iran and has tried without success to expert testimonies on his “narcissism”.
Reth, who does not have a formal legal training, will make the declarations of opening and closing, will question the witnesses and present evidence on his behalf. Your two former lawn act as “reserve lawyers” ready to advise if required.
“It was ridiculous, from the beginning, to consider any stranger, who knows nothing about me, talking about me,” wrote Reth in a letter to Cannon. “I’ll do better to walk alone.”
Called by Trump
Cannon, appointed by Trump in his first term, also supervised the criminal case of having accused Trump of having illegal access to reserved documents. He attracted wide attention and criticism from many jurists for his decision last year to present the case based on the observation that the main prosecutor had been illegally appointed.
The criminal defendants have the legal law of self -representation, but the Reth maneuver inserts an unpredictable element in the process and increases legal risks, said legal experts.
“If its only purpose must be acquitted, it is likely that its possibilities decrease,” said Eshimoto, professor of right at the University of Georgetown, who studied the car – -repriation in criminal cases. “If he has something else who is trying to judge, then represent himself can be the only way to achieve this goal.”
Routh tried to show his jury his previous writings who defended persecuted populations and the “normal man”, who mentioned as proof of a non -violent nature.
Routh wrote in a car -Pubblicated 2023 book that he voted for Trump in 2016, but he has not liked it since then, considering the attack of January 6, 2021 at the Capitol of the United States as part of a global attack on democracy.
Ruth will have to face rigorous limits in his ability to present political or ideological arguments in the process. The accusation and defense previously had agreed that he could not argue that his alleged actions were somehow justified or necessary.
Cannon has already decided that some of his previous writings cannot be presented as proof. Ruth warned, in a recent decision, against the use of the testimonies of the witnesses as a “tool for calculated chaos”.
Public ministries plan at least one letter presumably written by Routh to show the jury. The letter, addressed to “Dear World” and presumably included in a box left with well -known months before the accident, begins: “This was an attempt to murder against Donald Trump, but I am sorry to have disappointed you”.
Public ministries will have to demonstrate that Routh intended to kill Trump and took substantial measures for this.
Public ministries claim that Reth on September 15, 2024 established a “nest of weapons of weapons” overlooking the sixth golf courses with a SKS -style rifle loaded with 20 cartridges of ammunition and protective ballistic signs.
When the secret service identified Ruth, Trump was a few hundred meters away, near the fifth hole of the field, the ministries said. He would have reached the sixth green in about 15 minutes.
Source: Terra
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