A New York appeals court judge on Wednesday denied a third effort in three days by Donald Trump's attorneys to put on hold the former president’s impending criminal trial. Associate Justice Ellen Gesmer for the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York denied Trump's third legal challenge to delay the trial after a pair of state appeals court judges rejected similar efforts by Trump on Monday and Tuesday to pause the hush money trial, which is set to begin April 15 with jury selection....
A New York appeals court has denied Donald Trump’s petition to change the venue of his upcoming hush money trial. The former president’s attorneys on Monday had urged the court to postpone the trial so it could consider whether to change the venue, arguing that Trump cannot get a fair jury in New York. But Associate Justice Lizbeth González quickly denied the motion to stop the trial after hearing arguments Monday, and there is no further argument on the motion to change the venue. Trump’s...
Detroit Pistons general manager Troy Weaver will remain with the team in his current role as the organization searches for a new head of basketball
MILAN (AP) — Amanda Knox faces another trial for slander this week in Italy in a case that could remove the last legal stain against her, eight years after Italy’s highest court threw out her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate. Knox, who was a 20-year-old student when she was accused along with her then-boyfriend of murdering Meredith Kercher in 2007, has built a life back in the United States as an advocate, writer, podcaster and producer — with much of her work...
Amanda Knox faces another trial for slander this week in Italy in a case that could remove the last allegation against her eight years after Italy’s highest court threw out her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate. The case involves alleged slander against a Congolese bar owner. Even now, Knox isn’t sure that a not guilty verdict in the new trial will persuade her detractors. It is not clear whether she will testify at the trial that opens Wednesday in Florence.
Amanda Knox faces another trial for slander in a case that could remove the last legal stain against her after Italy's highest court threw out her conviction.
Lisa Rubin MSNBC Legal Correspondent who was in the courtroom, and Andrew Weissmann, former top prosecutor at the Justice Department joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to what happened on the first day of the trial in Donald Trump’s alleged hush money payments and what to expect as jury selection continues in this trial.
Amanda Knox faces another trial for slander this week in Italy in a case that could remove the last legal stain against her eight years after Italy’s highest court threw out her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate.
Lawyers had argued trial should be postponed while they seek a change of venue to move it out of heavily Democratic ManhattanSign up for Trump on Trial: a free newsletter on all the latest court developmentsA New York appeals court judge has rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to delay his 15 April hush-money criminal trial while he fights to move the case out of Manhattan.The decision came Monday, a week before jury selection was set to start. Continue reading
Donald Trump is just one week away from becoming the first former U.S. president to be tried for a crime, with his Manhattan trial slated to begin next Monday, April 15. Last week, Judge Juan Merchan rejected Donald Trump's request to delay the "hush money" trial. Trump argued that the judge should wait until the Supreme Court decides on the immunity issue, but Merchan rejected Trump’s presidential immunity claims on Wednesday, saying Trump waited too long to raise the defense and that the trial...
A New York appeals court judge has rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial while he fights to move the case out of Manhattan. The decision came Monday, a week before jury selection was set to start. Trump lawyer Emil Bove argued
Trump’s lawyers had argued at an emergency hearing that the historic trial should be postponed while they seek a change of venue to move it out of heavily Democratic Manhattan.