John Coleman has asked for another delay for his trial involving federal fraud charges.
Coleman’s attorney, John Colette of Jackson, has asked that the trial be delayed from its scheduled date of May 8 to an unspecified date in October or November, according to court documents filed last week.
The news was first reported by The Taxpayers Channel.
Coleman, president of the now-defunct Express Grain, has been accused of defrauding farmers, banks and state regulators, including allegedly providing falsified documents that misrepresented the company’s financial condition.
Last November, Coleman was charged by a federal grand jury on six counts of wire fraud.
He has also been charged by a Leflore County grand jury on five counts of making false representations to defraud government and one count of false pretense. A trial on the state charges has not been scheduled.
In his request for a delay to his federal trial, Colette stated that the documentation to be reviewed includes “hundreds of gigabytes/documents and files that will require a significant amount of time to review and go over with the defendant, in addition to the Discovery submitted in the companion State case which may contain similar documents and/or the same documents to a degree.”
The request notes that the prosecution does not object to the delay request and that a trial may not be required after review of the documents is complete.
The court had not ruled on the request as of Wednesday. The trial is scheduled to take place at the federal courthouse in Oxford.
- Contact Kevin Edwards at 662-581-7233 or kedwards@gwcommonwealth.com.
