“Mr Comey asserts that the first set of pretrial motions due on October 20, 2025, which the Court ordered at the arraignment hearing, demands that discovery be produced on Monday, October 13, 2025. Naturally, at least some of this discovery will inform the bases for the vindictive and selective prosecution motion that is to be filed on October 20, 2025. As of the date of this filing, the defense has received one page of discovery. The government contends that the term ‘deadline for pretrial motions’ refers to the deadline for the second tranche of pretrial motions, October 30, 2025.”
“To be able to fully articulate all bases for the first tranche of pretrial motions including the vindictive and selective nature of this case; to be able to effectively defend Mr. Comey; and because it is the plain language of the standard discovery order, Mr Comey respectfully requests that the Court enter the additional proposed order making clear that ‘the deadline for pretrial motions’ referenced in the standard discovery order is the first pretrial motions deadline of October 20, 2025,” write former FBI Director James Comey and his lawyer, other former federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, at the end of a notice to the court about how things are going in the lying to Congress case against him.