Judge Juan Merchan stated this Monday that will maintain a hearing subsequent week on the movement to sanction former president Donald Trump (2017-2021) for his publications on social networks, in accordance to journalists current at the prison trial towards the politician in New York.
The hearing will be April 23 at 9:30 a.m. native time (13.15 GMT), in accordance to the Justice of the Peace. The former president and present candidate’s attorneys have till Friday to current their written response.
Trump, who faces 34 costs, together with falsifying enterprise paperwork to assist cowl up an extramarital affair with a porn actress, arrived at Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday for the jury choice of his prison trial.
The Manhattan Prosecutor’s Office requested the judge to punish Trump for contempt of ‘gag order’ that limits his public comments on the case, after he has revealed latest messages about potential witnesses in the course of.
“Salacious assaults”
Among different issues, the Prosecutor’s Office identified three publications by the former president in Truth Social about the porn actress Stormy Daniels and her former lawyer Michael Cohen, key figures in the trial; About that, Trump’s lawyer, Todd Blanche defended that they had been solely responses to the “salacious, repeated and vehement assaults” by Daniels and Cohen towards their shopper, collects The New York Times.
The president intends be current all through the trial towards him in New York, as certainly one of his attorneys instructed the judge this Monday, who in flip learn him a authorized provision that requires good habits beneath menace of jail in case of non-compliance.
The first day of the trial is devoted to jury choice, however it has not formally begun 5 hours after Trump appeared in court docket due to the giant variety of earlier points that the prosecution and protection had to tackle.
