Judge denies Trump’s mistrial request after Stormy Daniels ‘extraordinarily prejudicial’ testimony
A judge on Tuesday denied former President Donald Trump‘s request for a mistrial in his hush money case, which Trump made after pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels delivered salacious testimony that tested the limits the court had placed on what she could say. Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche told Judge Juan Merchan that Daniels’s testimony differed […]
Prosecutors repeatedly reference Trump’s Access Hollywood scandal after judge ruled tape itself ‘prejudicial’
New York City prosecutors on Friday again referenced the leaked Access Hollywood tape in which former President Donald Trump made crude comments, but the judge reiterated that jurors could not hear or see the comments. Ta. Judge Juan Melchán ruled that while the tape itself was unduly biased against Trump, the same was not true […]
Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction overturned on appeal: ‘Irrelevant, prejudicial, and untested’
Disgraced former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein scored a major legal victory Thursday when a New York appellate court overturned his 2020 rape conviction. In February of that year, Weinstein was convicted of a crime Charges of first-degree criminal sexual assault related to former “Project Runway” production assistant Miriam Haley and third-degree rape related to former […]