Donald Trump loses bid to delay hush money trial in major courtroom setback
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A New York judge on Monday (April 8) denied Donald Trump's bid to delay his April 15 criminal trial on charges related to paying hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels.
The development came after a half an hour hearing atthe Appellate Division in Manhattan following whichAssociate Justice Lizbeth Gonzalez issued her decision.
A lawyer for Donald Trump, Emil Bove, said that his client was seeking to stay the case pending the application to move the trial. The prosecution retorted thatTrump waited too long to object to being tried in Manhattan. The charges were brought in April 2023.
Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate who looks set to challengeDemocratic President Joe Biden in the Nov5 US election, has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records.
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It was not specified where exactly Trump's team would like the trial to be held.
The defence claimedthat a survey taken by Trump's legal team of residents inManhattan found that 61 per centof respondents thought Trump was guilty, and 70 per cent had a negative opinion of him.
"There is real potential prejudice here to moving forward," Bove said. "Jury selection cannot proceed in a fair manner starting next week in this county."
The prosecution claimed thatTrump cannot cite media attention as a reason to move the trial.
"He himself has been responsible for stoking that publicity," the prosecution said.
A criminal trial would be the first for a former US president in American history.
Donald Trump hush money case: What is it about?
Donald Trump is accused of covering up his former lawyer Michael Cohen's $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence before the 2016 presidential election about a sexual encounter she said she had with Trump a decade earlier.
Trump has denied any such encounter with Daniels.
The hush money caseis one of four criminal cases he faces.
The others are abouthis efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Biden, and his handling of sensitive government documents after leaving the presidency in 2021. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
(With inputs from agencies)