The lawyer for indicted Washington state auditor Troy Kelley has more than 80,000 pages of transcripts, witness statements and documents to wade through. It’s a sign of the complexity of the money laundering and tax evasion case against the first-term Democrat.
To understand how much 80,000 pages is, consider this: you’d have to read War and Peace 66 times. Kelley’s new defense lawyer Angelo Calfo has already succeeded in getting the trial pushed from January to March to buy some additional prep time. But recent court filings reveal the defense and prosecution can’t agree on the schedule leading up to trial.
The judge in the case will have to play referee. He’ll also have to decide whether there’s any basis for the prosecution’s suggestion that Calfo has a conflict of interest. In a recent filing with the court, Calfo says there is no conflict and warns an erroneous disqualification of him would result in the “automatic reversal of any conviction the government might obtain.”
