Editing Hutaree (section)

===Pre-trial hearings===
In February 2011, Judge Victoria A. Roberts set a new trial date of September 13, 2011, after defense attorneys asked for more time to review the hundreds of pages of evidence prosecutors had provided them. Attorneys also cited the complexity of the case in asking for a delay. The case originally was to go to trial on February 28, 2011. Roberts first delayed the trial in December 2010 until April after attorneys made a similar request. Defense attorneys argued that statements made by Hutaree were constitutionally protected free speech and not plans for an attack.

In January 2012, a federal judge issued an order granting the defense attorneys' motion to exclude prosecution testimony by an expert drawing parallels between the defendants' beliefs and various conspiracy theories about [[Ruby Ridge]], the [[Waco siege]], the [[Oklahoma City bombing]], and [[9/11]], concluding: "It is largely irrelevant to the issues in dispute and what little probative value it might add is substantially outweighed by the risks of undue prejudice, confusion and misleading the jury."<ref>{{Cite court|litigants=United States v. Stone|litigants-force-plain=y|court=E.D. Mich.|reporter=F.R.D.|vol=279|opinion=434|pinpoint=439-440|date=2012|url=https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-stone-102|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230810225557/https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-stone-102|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 10, 2023}}</ref>