Spend the first two days of the trial introducing new documentary evidence. it was the same in judge john pickering s trial in 1804, new documents were presented to the senate nearly a week before house managers made their opening statement and later throughout the trial. and has been mentioned earlier by mr. schiff, in modern times in 2010, george porteous s impeachment trial included seven months of pretrial discovery and 6,000 pages of documentary evidence admitted at trial after that evidence was admitted the senate held its trial. president clinton s case did not involve subpoenas for adultdocu, why was that? because president clinton had already produced a huge trove of documents. the independent counsel turned over to congress some 90,000 pages of relevant documents gathered during the course of ....