{"id":52764,"date":"2025-03-18T19:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T19:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=52764"},"modified":"2025-03-18T19:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T19:23:16","slug":"samourai-wallet-developers-appear-together-in-court-at-fourth-pre-trial-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=52764","title":{"rendered":"Samourai Wallet Developers Appear Together In Court At Fourth Pre-Trial Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

Samourai Wallet Developers Appear Together In Court At Fourth Pre-Trial Hearing<\/a><\/p>\n

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Today, the fourth pre-trial hearing for the United States\u2019 case against the Samourai Wallet developers<\/a> took place in the Southern District of New York.<\/p>\n

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I attended the most recent status conference for the Samourai case today.<\/p>\n

Here’s an update from outside the courthouse: pic.twitter.com\/9WN1N2t9Kr<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Frank Corva (@frankcorva) March 18, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

This is the second time that the two developers, Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill, have appeared together in public since the previous status conference<\/a>, which occurred on September 17, 2024.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s hearing was the shortest and least substantive of the four pre-trial hearings that have occurred thus far.<\/p>\n

Pre-Trial Motion Schedule<\/h2>\n

At the hearing, the prosecution and the defense established and agreed upon the pre-trial motion schedule schedule, which is as follows:<\/p>\n

May 9, 2025<\/strong> \u2014 Opening motion<\/p>\n

June 6, 2025<\/strong> \u2014 The prosecution\u2019s response to the opening motion<\/p>\n

June 20, 2025<\/strong> \u2014 Replies to the prosecution\u2019s response<\/p>\n

Expert Disclosure<\/h2>\n

The prosecution is scheduled to provide its expert disclosure on July 15, 2025, while the defense is expected to provide it by August 8, 2025.<\/p>\n

Further expert disclosure may also be permitted on July 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM EST, which is the date for the next in-person pre-trial hearing.<\/p>\n

Hill To Remain In Lisbon<\/h2>\n

Hill\u2019s attorney asked Judge Richard Berman, who is presiding over the case, if the court would be amenable to the court not requiring Hill\u2019s appearance at future pre-trial hearings given that Hill is currently living with his wife in Lisbon, Portugal and traveling back and forth to New York City is expensive.<\/p>\n

His attorney also stated that pre-trial services were \u201csupportive\u201d of this request.<\/p>\n

The judge stated that he didn\u2019t see a problem with this.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez Expresses Gratitude<\/h2>\n

After the hearing, Rodriguez told Bitcoin Magazine that he\u2018s grateful to all those who\u2019ve donated to the Peer-to-Peer Rights Fund<\/a>, which helps to fund the developers\u2019 legal defense.<\/p>\n

Those interested can still donate to the fund.<\/p>\n

Trial Start Date<\/h2>\n

The trial is slated to begin on November 3, 2025.<\/p>\n

This post Samourai Wallet Developers Appear Together In Court At Fourth Pre-Trial Hearing<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Frank Corva<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine Samourai Wallet Developers Appear Together In Court At Fourth Pre-Trial Hearing Today, the fourth pre-trial hearing for the United States\u2019 case against the Samourai Wallet developers took place in the Southern District of New York. I attended the most recent status conference for the Samourai case today. Here’s an update from outside the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":52765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}