CNN legal correspondent Paula Reed said Thursday that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s decision to request a delay in former President Donald Trump’s trial was “truly shocking.”
Mr. Bragg said in court Thursday that Mr. Trump’s trial will begin in March 2023 on charges in the March 2023 indictment against Mr. Trump that centered on a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016. He said he was positive about the date being postponed. filing. Reed said the initial delay in the trial may not be the only culprit. (Related article: ‘Get a bad conviction’: Alan Dershowitz outlines Democratic strategy for indicting Trump)
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“The defense had asked for a 90-day delay for discovery, but surprisingly the prosecution said they would not object to a 30-day delay. It was up to the judge. So this judge went back. They may come and say they’ll give you 30 days, 45 days, 90 days,” Reid told “The Reid” host Jake Tapper.
“But what struck me, Jake, was that this was the only incident that was on the calendar,” Reed continued. “Three other criminal charges are stalled and even if he postpones it for 45 days, there’s nothing that absolutely has to say to me that this will definitely end, and I can always come back week after week, filing after filing. If it’s delayed at all, there’s a good chance it won’t happen in time for the election. So this was really shocking.”
Mr. Trump’s lawyers on Wednesday received more than 30,000 pages of documents from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York that blamed the delay on the actions of Mr. Trump’s lawyers, according to Mr. Bragg’s filing.
Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges in court on April 4, 2023.
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