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Published on July 14, 2024 18:05 GMT+00:00edited on July 14, 2024 18:09 GMT+00:00

Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm's request to delay his upcoming trial was granted by the judge in the case, Judge Katherine Polk Failla, over the objections of the prosecution in a recent court hearing in lower Manhattan. 

Storm's defense attorneys had requested the trial delay due to the complexity of the case and the voluminous nature of the discovery, according to a court filing. "Additional time is needed because this case involves complex and novel legal and factual issues," Storm's lawyers wrote, adding, "The government has also produced voluminous discovery in this case on a rolling basis (millions of pages of documents, many of which are in Russian and require translation), which the defense is still analyzing and conferring with Mr. Storm about." 

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