Former President Donald Trump received his third failure this Wednesday in his attempt to delay the criminal trial in New York, scheduled for April 15. Associate Justice Ellen Gesmer of the state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division denied Trump’s third legal challenge so far this week.
This time the former president’s lawyers asked the court to delay the process using a legal tool known as “article 78.” which allows litigants to request assistance for what they consider illegal government actionsreports NBC News.
The application documents are confidential, but according to the media they requested this delay while several rulings from the judge who will preside over the trial, Juan Merchan, are analyzed. whom Trump has denounced for an alleged conflict of interest over his daughter’s work, related to politics.
Appeals Judge Ellen Gesmer took a half hour to respond with a negative, but a panel of judges will later hear the lawyers’ arguments.
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Since the week began, this is Trump’s third unsuccessful attempt to delay the process: he has previously argued that he does not face a fair trial due to negative media coverage and that the “gag order” limiting his public comments is unconstitutional.
Manhattan District Attorney’s Office prosecutor Lisa Evans argued that delaying the trial would “cause enormous disruption” and there is no reason to do so.
Different panels of appeals judges are also expected to later hear his requests to change courts, thus avoiding Manhattan, and modify the “gag order” that prevents Trump from speaking about those involved in the trial or about the relatives of the prosecutor and the judge.
The trial is scheduled to begin Monday. The former president has pleaded not guilty to charges of falsifying business records related to hush payments that were made during the 2016 presidential campaign.
With information from EFE.
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