Manhattan DA opposes Trump's demand to delay hush money trial over 'prejudicial' media coverage [View all]
Source: The Hill
04/03/24 11:34 AM ET
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) office is opposing former President Trump’s demand that his fast-approaching hush money trial be delayed because of prejudicial publicity.
In court papers made public Wednesday, prosecutors argued the April 15 trial date should go ahead as planned, noting it was Trump’s eighth bid to postpone the schedule as part of his broader legal strategy to delay all four of his criminal trials beyond the November election. Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo wrote that the national attention surrounding the case isn’t likely to subside, and Trump “deliberately generates press attention himself.”
“Defendant simply cannot have it both ways: complaining about the prejudicial effect of pretrial publicity, while seeking to pollute the jury pool himself by making baseless and inflammatory accusations about this trial, specific witnesses, individual prosecutors, and the Court itself,” Colangelo wrote in the new filing.
Trump last week renewed his demand that the trial be postponed indefinitely because of the barrage of media coverage on his hush money case, which in less than two weeks is slated to become the first criminal trial of a former president. Trump claimed the coverage prejudices potential jurors, preventing a fair trial.
Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4572209-manhattan-da-trump-delay-hush-money-trial/
Link to filing (PDF reader) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24530062-4-1-24-peoples-opposition-to-trumps-prejudicial-publicity-adjournment-motion
Link to filing (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24530062/4-1-24-peoples-opposition-to-trumps-prejudicial-publicity-adjournment-motion.pdf
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