The delay in the hush money case would allow the former president's legal team to review new records that could be related to the case.A general view shows Judge Juan Manuel Merchan's courtroom at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on Tuesday. Former President Donald Trump will become the first former U.S. president to face criminal trial when jury selection begins.
Jury selection had been scheduled to begin March 25. The New York case is still set to be the first of the four criminal cases against Trump to go to trial. The others have been in limbo due to multiple motions and other delays from Trump's lawyers.that it would not oppose a 30-day delay to give Trump's team time to review 31,000 records recently provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office.
At the center of the trial are 11"hush money" payments to adult film actor Stormy Daniels who, at the time Trump was first running for president, threatened to go public with accusations she'd had an affair with him not long after he married Melania Trump.The fact of the payments and the false records isn't in dispute.
The trial, once it begins, is expected to last about six weeks. Trump has vowed to continue campaigning during that time.about whether the former president is immune from prosecution for events related to Jan. 6. The court's decision there could determine the fate of multiple cases against him.Judge Aileen Cannon refused to dismiss charges
that Trump unlawfully withheld classified documents after leaving office. She has not set a date for trial. Prosecutors want it to begin in July, and Trump wants to delay it until next year, after the presidential election.
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