All posts tagged "Trial Date"

Donald Trump continues to claim that his so-called "hush money" trial is "rigged," but even his former lawyers disagree.

One of the major claims coming out of the Republican Party and Fox networks is the allegation that "The jury doesn’t need to be unanimous," Aaron Blake said in the Washington Post.

The fact-check explained that Trump doesn't have to be found guilty on all 34 counts to be considered guilty. Trump is charged with falsifying business records, which is typically a misdemeanor. That crime becomes a felony if another crime escalates it or if there is an intention to commit another crime. ...

Former President Donald Trump is going to employ a new "risky" defense strategy at his Manhattan criminal hush money trial, former Manhattan prosecutor Rebecca Roiphe argued to MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Wednesday evening.

Specifically, she argued, the former president is going to not deny the payment brokered by his former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen happened, but that there wasn't anything illegal about it in the first place.

"We think we're going to get a few more witnesses this week," said Hayes. "What are you sort of looking for in terms of where the case goes next?" ...

Donald Trump on Saturday lashed out against the judge overseeing the defamation case of E. Jean Carroll, whom the former president was found to have sexually assaulted, for refusing to delay the upcoming trial due to the death of Melania Trump's mother.

Trump requested through his attorneys that the court delay the trial, the second Carroll will have against Trump for defamation, but the court rejected that request on Friday.

The internet was quick to point out that the former president chose to go on the campaign trail after making the request....

A former Donald Trump lawyer who was indicted alongside the ex-president in Georgia is hitting back against Jack Smith's D.C. criminal case.

Jeff Clark, the former Trump official who was recently smacked down for a "creative" attempt to avoid prosecution, was responding to a right-wing article suggesting the case being overseen by Judge Chutkan is the best hope for anyone to stop Trump.

"That's what the 'J6/2020' case is all about -- a Hail Mary designed to try to destroy Trump before the election and usher Biden (or some other Democrat) back into the White House on 1/20/25," Clark wrote on Wednesday. "The March 2024 trial date Judge Chutkan set is an arbitrary date -- to be clear, it's one she had discretion to set as all Judges inherently control their own dockets. Though even there, it's a case that objectively should take longer to get to trial. It's something a Judge could do, but it's also an overly aggressive date many Judges would have opted against."...

Former President Donald Trump, faced with an avalanche of criminal indictments, has sought to use his campaign for office as a kind of legal shield to defend himself from being prosecuted and convicted. But that isn't going to work, former federal prosecutor John Flannery argued on Friday's edition of MSNBC's "The Beat."

"What [we were] told the last time this came up when Donald Trump was president ... [was], a state case would have to wait until he leaves office. No?" said Melber.

Flannery disagreed....

Special counsel Jack Smith Friday night hit Trump with a filing in the D.C. elections case, accusing the former president of working overtime to disrupt the trial date.

The brief accuses Trump of using two separate motions, one in which he seeks to stay all proceedings in the case, to mess with a March date already set for the trial in the election subversion case.

Smith said Friday that "defendant’s requests are designed to disrupt the trial date and delay the resolution of this matter."...