Lawyers for Donald Trump sent a letter to New York Justice Juan Merchan on Friday asking for a hearing later this month in the aftermath of a disclosure mistake by the prosecution, asserting that a 30-day delay is "not sufficient," Politico reported.
Trump is seeking a hearing the week of March 25, the week the trial is currently slated to begin.
The Manhattan district attorney's office offered up a 30-day delay on Thursday after the release of more than 100,000 pages of documents by federal prosecutors this month alone regarding the past criminal case of former Trump lawyer turned witness Michael Cohen.
A heavily redacted March 8 filing by the Trump team was made public Thursday. In it, lawyers said they needed more time to pore over the tranche of documents they recently received from the U.S. Attorney's Office (USAO), which previously investigated Cohen.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg then offered up a 30-day delay but said he would oppose any delay longer than that. Trump's team on Thursday suggested a 90-day delay, in fact beseeching Merchan to consider dismissing the indictment altogether.
"The statements demonstrate that Cohen did not seek to be, and was not, acting for the benefit of President Trump's campaign," Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche wrote in the filing.
Trump's lawyers have received more than 100,000 pages of records from the USAO since March 4, including a batch of 31,000 pages on Wednesday, the Washington Post reported.
The DA's office said in a filing Friday that the USAO said it expects to complete production of the remaining documents later Friday, beating a deadline of next week, according to Politico.
Trump's lawyers assert that evidence uncovered from the federal investigation into Cohen undermines DA Bragg's arguments.
On Friday, Trump's lawyers asked Merchan that the Southern District of New York (SDNY) "be permitted to address the extraordinarily serious claim by the People that the USAO-SDNY wrongfully withheld responsive materials on a previous occasion in response to the People's request."
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records to hide Cohen's $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels for her silence before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she says she and Trump had a decade earlier.
Information from Reuters was used in this report.