NEW YORK — The trial in New York in the case against former President Donald Trump for allegedly paying hush money to Stormy Daniels has been delayed until mid-April, Judge Juan Merchán ruled Friday.
Merchan said the trial, originally scheduled to begin March 25, would be delayed 30 days from Friday.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had said he would support delaying the trial by 30 days, to the end of April. Trump’s legal team requested that it be postponed for 90 days.
Bragg said Thursday that Trump’s request to delay the trial was the result of the federal prosecutor in Manhattan providing more than 100,000 pages of evidence, which Bragg said was “largely irrelevant to the subject matter of this case.” The U.S. Attorney’s Office provided an additional 15,000 pages on Friday, which Bragg’s office said were also “likely unrelated to the subject matter of this case.”
The documents relate to Michael Cohen’s 2018 guilty plea to numerous criminal charges, including making secret payments to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump, lying to Congress about Trump’s dealings with Russia and failing to report millions of dollars in income.
Bragg’s office brought the case against Trump, accusing the former president of falsifying business records related to Cohen’s $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels toward the end of the 2016 presidential campaign.
In mid-February, Merchan scheduled the trial to begin on March 25. He said he expected it to last about six weeks. He had made clear that he was not interested in postponing the trial, as Trump’s lawyers had requested.
Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to money payments to Daniels. He has pleaded not guilty.
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2024-03-15 21:53:14
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