Both parties and the court agreed to toll the speedy trial clock by 45 days, meaning the countdown timer within which federal prosecutors must bring Cole Allen to trial is paused. The decision was made due to extensive discovery in the high-profile criminal case.Prosecutors have said there will be “thousands of pages and gigabytes of data” produced to the defendant in discovery, given that the scope of his alleged crime stemmed from his home state of California to Washington, D.C.
U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, an appointee of President Donald Trump, scheduled the next hearing for Aug. 20. McFadden expects to set a trial date during the upcoming hearing.The development comes two months after Allen allegedly attempted to assassinate Trump and other administration officials during the annual WHCA dinner at the Washington Hilton. Moments after rushing through security and firing at a Secret Service agent, he was apprehended by law enforcement. The agent, who wore a bulletproof vest at the time of the shooting, survived.Cole Tomas Allen, 31, from Torrance in California, was apprehended by police after trying to storm the Washington Hilton, and is in custody. (Donald Trump / Truth Social)
