This week marks the beginning of the first criminal trial against Donald Trump. The former president is accused of crimes stemming from his hush money scheme in which he and his associates sought to
The former boss of supermarket group Jumbo faces prosecution for corruption and forgery, and may face money laundering charges, according to a public prosecution department statement, published on Tuesday afternoon. The investigation into Frits van Eerd, whose home was first raided by police in 2022, is still ongoing, the department said. Van Eerd resigned in March 2023 after stepping down in September 2022 when allegations against him first surfaced. Nine people were arrested in total,...
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is in an "uncomfortable" position in former President Donald Trump's criminal trial, a former federal prosecutor said this week.On Monday, former federal prosecutor Brett Tolman appeared on Fox News' Fox & Friends to speak about the start of Trump's criminal trial for alleged hush money payments made to former adult film star Stormy Daniels and suggested that Bragg was "bullied" by New York attorney Mark Pomerantz into bringing the case against the former...
Judge Aileen Cannon appears to "resent" having to take steps to protect witnesses against former President Donald Trump from threats in his Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance told MSNBC's Joy Reid on Tuesday.This comes after Cannon, a South Florida judge appointed by Trump himself, agreed to protect the names of certain government witnesses against Trump — after special counsel Jack Smith demanding protection for several witnesses he warned would be...
Alec Baldwin filed a witness list for his upcoming involuntary manslaughter trial, and it includes some "Rust" crew members -- like the recently imprisoned Hannah Gutierrez-Reed. The actor's attorneys submitted their list to the court Friday, and…
The jury selection process in former President Donald Trump's New York criminal trial has featured moments that are "unprecedented," according to former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner.Trump's hush-money trial began with jury selection in Manhattan on Monday, with seven of 18 total required jurors and alternates having been selected by the end of the day on Tuesday. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal a 2016 payment to adult-film actress...
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ohio (WTRF) -- Two trials were held this morning in Jefferson County Juvenile Court but no decisions were reached and no practicing attorneys took part. That's because it was the 2024 Mock Trial held by the county Bar Association, where aspiring lawyers from two high schools see what it's like to step up to []
Former President Donald Trump just touched the third rail during his hush money trial as prosecutors executed a powerful courtroom chess move, a former prosecutor told CNN Tuesday. Karen Agnifilo, an ex-assistant district attorney in the borough where Trump faces his first criminal trial, appeared on the network to discuss the stern warning that a muttering and glaring Trump received from Judge Juan Merchan."The third rail is if anyone starts to make the jury feel any kind of intimidation...
Jury selection for former President Trump's hush money case begins today in a Manhattan courtroom. This is the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. Our legal panel provides more insight and legal analysis on the historic trial.
Bragg is now the first prosecutor to begin a criminal trial against a
Welcome back, Deadline: Legal Newsletter readers. A Manhattan jury was assembled this week for the first criminal trial against a former U.S. president. The selection process in People v. Donald Trump started off slow, then picked up quickly, then went backward somehow, but ultimately wrapped up with the 12 regular jurors picked Thursday and the alternates finalized Friday. Opening statements await. “We have our jury,” Judge Juan Merchan said at the end of a dramatic Thursday. By then, there...
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