A judge in New York City who is in charge of Donald Trump’s approaching criminal prosecution in Manhattan said he would permit the former president to submit an extra delay request.
Judge Juan Merchan gave President Trump’s attorneys a year to listen to the filing on March 25 by allowing them to file a motion during pre-trial hearings.
In response to the media’s coverage of a legal case that might possibly affect jurors ‘ verdict decisions, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche requested that the trial be delayed in light of pre-trial publicity. Judge Merchan indicated that the action was be filed, but added that the trial was scheduled for April 15 as of March 25 according to writers in the courtroom.
The district attorney’s office may have turned over the case’s paperwork at a later time, the judge argued, which the prosecutor rejected. His attorneys claimed that the case may be dropped because Mr. Bragg’s company had refuted Mr. Bragg’s claim that prosecutors “actively sought to prevent President Trump from obtaining crucial components.”
The Trump team first predicted that before the judge threw out the papers on March 25, lawyers would need at least a 90-day pause in his prosecution to examine the new evidence.
After a last-minute report chuck caused a postponement of the original day, the test had been in purgatory. Judge Merchan blasted the former mayor’s attorneys ‘ claims that prosecutors purposefully ignored requests for tens of thousands of pages of data from a national investigation involving the same concerns in setting jury selection for April 15.
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Just a small number of those recently released information, according to the prosecution, were pertinent to the event. Defense attorneys claimed that thousands of pages could be significant and needed to be carefully reviewed. The judge told defense attorneys that they should have acted sooner if they had reasoned not to have all the data they felt they were entitled to after earlier this month, which delayed the test until at least mid-April.
Last year, Mr. Bragg’s office charged President Trump with 34 felony counts of falsifying New York business records to allegedly cover up a$ 130, 000 payment to Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress. The former president has entered a not-guilty plea and refuted Ms. Daniels ‘ says that they were involved in a loving relationship in the early 2000s.
Specifically, he is accused of falsifying the obligations to his onetime attorney, Michael Cohen, then a Trump writer. A federal judge in a separate case last year said that Mr. Cohen may have committed fraud under oath by denying his first release from probation, while doctors for the former president next year cast Mr. Cohen as an uncertain see.
President Trump, the presumably Democratic nominee for president, told investigators that the test is a form of election meddling while speaking outside the Manhattan judge on March 25.
” This situation could have been brought three and a half years before,” he said. And then they’re arguing over whether or not to try and do it during the vote. This is vote intervention. That’s all it is. Election meddling and it’s a disgrace”, the former senator said.
After on March 25, the former president responded to rumors that he might speak in the business records situation. ” I would have no trouble testifying. I did n’t do anything wrong”, he told reporters.
The former president suggested to reporters outside the court that it was likely would n’t happen despite Judge Merchan’s decision to set the April 15 trial date.
” I do n’t know that you’re going to have the trial. I do n’t know how you can have a trial like this in the middle of an election, a presidential election”, he told the reporters, adding that “it could also make me more popular because the people know it’s a scam. It’s a Trump prosecution”.
But also, according to President Trump, the event is being rushed. ” You have a circumstance which… they’re dying to get this point started. The judge may get faster. He wants to get it started but badly”, he said.
In addition to the Manhattan event, President Trump is facing federal and state criminal charges in Washington and Georgia, where he is accused of trying to overturn the 2020 election. After leaving the White House in the early 2021, he is accused of allegedly retaining classified records without authorization in Florida. He has entered a not-guilty plea to the claims.
A New York appellate court ruled on March 25 that President Trump could publish a lower bond number to challenge a$ 455 million civil fraud judgment issued by a judge a few weeks prior. His attorneys are then required to pay$ 175 million to challenge the decision.
In reaction, the former senator released a film on March 25 that he would respect the judge’s decision and “put up income” to charm the civil fraud test.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
