Overview

• Jury selection begins Sept. 8 in Fort Pierce, with opening statements expected Sept. 11 and roughly four weeks reserved for trial.
• Judge Aileen Cannon confirmed Routh will represent himself with standby counsel and ordered professional attire, podium use only, and immediate marshal action for sudden movements.
• A newly unsealed 33-page exhibit list outlines photos of Routh with the same model rifle, phone messages requesting a “missile launcher,” attempts to track the president’s plane, and searches on sniper concealment and gunpowder residue.
• Cannon authorized a disabled rifle, empty magazines and live rounds to be brought into court under constant FBI control for evidentiary use.
• Routh, 59, has pleaded not guilty to attempted assassination, assault on a federal officer and firearms charges, faces parallel state counts, and filed a motion proposing a round of golf with the president to “settle” the case.