A success for Donald Trump in his strategy to postpone his criminal trials. The start of the trial in the case of payments to buy the silence of porn actress Stormy Daniels has been postponed.
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The Stormy Daniels trial was scheduled to begin on March 25 in New York but ultimately it will not begin until mid-April. A New York judge postponed Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial in a case of hidden payments to an adult film actress. So, on March 25, instead of starting to select the jury supposed to try the former president, Judge Merchan will instead hold a hearing to find out if the trial should be further postponed , or not.
This Thursday, March 14, prosecutor Alvin Bragg declared himself in favor of a one-month postponement, time to let each party examine thousands of pages of documents that had recently been added to the case. The judge therefore complied and the prosecution, as well as the defense of Donald Trumpwill present their arguments.
This trial against Stormy Daniels was the only one of the four criminal trials that had a start date. It is now obsolete and the Republican candidate therefore benefits from a new respite.
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For several months, Donald Trump has been increasing appeals and challenges in the four criminal cases against him, with the hope of not being judged or convicted before the November election. Washington’s lawsuit in an attempt to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election is hanging on a Supreme Court ruling on Donald Trump’s immunity request. The one in Atlanta, for his attempt to reverse the result in Georgia, has no start date and the assistant prosecutor has just withdrawn at the request of the judge due to a romantic relationship with his boss.
Finally, the trial on the presidential archives, initially scheduled for May 20, will probably be postponed for several months, Judge Aileen Cannon wanting a timetable sufficiently spaced out to allow ” flexibility », notably because of the possibility of overlap with other cases.
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