That is what happens when you have a system where the guilty try to utilize any possible to circumvent justice being served. You would think only the innocent would do it and the guilty would just lay down and take their punishment.
Go Figure.
I don't have any problems with the guilty mounting a defense. It's coming up with goofy and spurious noise in the judicial process. So far, the only time he's wasted is ours. Hopefully his lawyer will sit on him a bit. Of course, he could always retain Dillon for legal assistance.
What happens after the motions hearing is that if there are no motions to act on, then a date for the next step which is likely jury impanelment (if used) and trial.
If there are things that need to be acted upon the whole thing is probably deferred for another hearing to make sure that all those are satisfied and no new issues came up.
I can tell you that by the time a judge gets to the federal judiciary, he's not going to put up with much drivel form pro se litigants. In some federal courts, you won't even get to open your mouth if you don't have a valid and well drafted motion ready to go.
Which court are you being heard in? This is almost worth going to watch.
I've not been to federal court on a motions day since the Mitnick/Lottor case (Lottor was a friend and Mitnick told his lawyer he had to take my computer security class in preparation).
I remember one motion was the bill of particulars for the assertion of the possession of certain "access devices." I offered to send the lawyer my ATM machine as an example of the junk us engineer geeks tend to have around without any ill intent whatsover...Kevin had an old klunky verifone card terminal that was on the list).
