Thus, the trial will begin a few months before the presidential election in the States, in the middle of the primaries season.
Currently, Trump, who has pleaded not guilty, is seeking the Republican nomination in this race.
On Tuesday, as Judge Juan Mercan announced the trial schedule, Trump attended the hearing remotely via video link.
Merchan warned the ex-president that he could be sanctioned if he violated an order restricting his ability to release evidence and other materials related to the criminal case. We are talking about a protection order issued earlier in May.
The judge told prosecutors to file their pre-trial motions by August 29 and gave Trump’s lawyers until October 10 to submit their responses. Merchan also said he would rule on the petitions on January 4 at a hearing in which the ex-president would have to appear in person.
After the hearing, Trump posted a message on his websitein which he criticized the schedule of his trial, and the judge himself.
“Just had a New York County Supreme Court hearing where I believe my First Amendment Free Speech rights have been violated and we’ve been forced to have a March 25 trial date right in the middle of primary season,” he wrote. He.
Trump added that he considers this “very unfair” and regarded it as “election interference.”
Court case against Trump
On May 9, a Manhattan federal jury found that Donald Trump sexually assaulted Jean Carroll in the spring of 1996 in a department store dressing room, while the jury found no evidence that he raped the woman, but upheld her civil battery lawsuit.
The ex-president of the United States will have to pay the victim $ 2 million in compensation. Trump was also found guilty of defamation when he denied the incident, and was awarded another $3 million in damages to Carroll.
Trump, in turn, denies the allegations and appealed the court’s verdict. He claims he did not meet Carroll at the store and added that she was “not my type.”
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