A Trump lawyer asks for a four-week postponement in a trial involving E. Jean Carroll because of publicity surrounding the former president’s arraignment last week in a separate criminal case.
In a letter late Tuesday to the judge presiding over the Carroll trial, scheduled to start April 25, lawyers for Trump argued the postponement is needed because of the “deluge” of publicity and “prejudicial media coverage concerning [Trump’s] unprecedented indictment and arraignment.
“Jurors selected to hear Ms. Carroll’s allegations against President Trump will have the breathless coverage of President Trump’s alleged extra-marital affair with Stormy Daniels still ringing in their ears if the trial goes forward as scheduled,” they wrote.to 34 felony charges that he falsified business records to conceal $130,000 in reimbursement payments to his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who had paid off Daniels before the 2016 election.
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