Ryan Routh wants to drop an assassination against Trump: NPR

Fort Pierce, Fla. – The man who was accused of murdering Donald Trump when he ran for the President last year asked a judge to reject some of the charges against him.

The prosecutors say that Ryan Routh had plans an attempt at assassination recognized by a secret service representative In the West Palm Beach Club of Trump in September. Routh has not guilty.

At a hearing in front of the Federal Court here on Wednesday, Routh defenders argued that two of the charges prescribed against him should be rejected because they violated his rights of the second change. Routh is accused, illegally has a firearm as a convicted criminal and has a firearm with a triggered serial number.

The Federal Head Sonia Fahrzi said US district judge Aileen Cannon that the latest court decisions show: “The second change does not only apply to citizens.” Routh has two earlier convictions for criminal offenses, including one that illegally has dynamite. Fahrzi says that these convictions should not prevent him from exercising his constitutional right to a firearm. And she said: “The lack of a serial number does not remove a firearm from the second change text.”

John SHIPLEY, Prosecutor of the Ministry of Justice, said that the law that the criminal forbids to own firearms is still a law. And he said: “A firearm with a triggered serial number has no lawful purpose.”

Judge Cannon was appointed by President Trump. She is the same judge who dismissed the president against the president due to abuse documents in his house in Mar-A-Lago.

In addition to the counters of the crime weapon, Routh is suspended three further charges, including the attempt to murder a presidential candidate.

Routh has been in federal custody since his arrest in September. An intelligence agent who was part of Trump’s security detail said that he saw how a gun barrel was a few holes from the tree line where the then presidential candidate was Golf. The agent fired at the person who held the gun. A man who was later identified as Routh fled the scene and was arrested a short time later to drive north on the Interstate-95.

On Wednesday, Routh Richter Cannon’s lawyers asked to suppress the witness’s testimony, who identified her client as the person who had run from Trump’s golf club.

Two hours after the incident, the witness of helicopter, identified by his initial TCM in court, was flown to a place on the I-95. Routh’s lawyer, Renee Sihvola, said that he saw from the helicopter that the traffic on the highway had stopped and was brought to a place where a single suspect, a hand clamp, was introduced. The defense states that this is “inadmissible” and has created a “considerable probability” that it has been incorrectly identified.

Sihvola asked Richter Cannon to order a hearing to examine how Routh was identified as the person who ran from the golf club from the golf club. Sihvola said: “The entirety of the circumstances indicate that it was unreliable.”

The public prosecutor Christopher Browne told the judge that the witness TCM was a “good Samaritan”, who heard shots and made a turnaround in his vehicle to take a better look at the person he saw from the golf club. “In this case there is no potential for false identification,” he said.

The public prosecutor also asked the judge to conclude Routh’s lawyers from the fact that her client was missing the mental or physical ability to present a real threat to Trump.

The SKS-style rifle left behind at the scene was not fired and had temporarily attached a rifle scope with an electric adhesive tape to it. Routh’s lawyers want their own experts to testify how well or whether it would have worked if it had been fired on Trump that day. The judge made a defense request to carry out a live test of the weapon, but said that he could not be tested for range or accuracy.

Routh’s test will begin in September.