Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg filed a motion calling on a New York judge to deny Donald Trump's request for a delay in his hush money payments case.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is calling on a New York court to deny former President Trump's request for a delay in his trial on Thursday. Bragg's filing comes after new documents relating to Trump's alleged hush money payments case were uncovered. Judge Juan Merchan agreed to impose a 30-day postponement to allow the documents to be reviewed, setting the date of the trial to April 15. Trump's legal team argued that delay is not enough.
Defendant's accusations of a discovery violation are a distraction from the only issue actually presented here, which is how this Court should respond to the late arrival of potentially relevant evidence from sources outside of the People's direction or control,' Bragg wrote. On that question, the appropriate remedy is the brief adjournment that this Court has already granted, which is more than enough time for the parties to review what the People now have good reason to believe is the limited number of relevant records in the USAO's recent productions. This Court should accordingly deny defendant's request for more extreme sanctions,' the filing continued.
The U.S. Attorneys Office said much of the material is unrelated to the state case against Trump. Federal prosecutors have already provided at least 104,000 pages of records — 74,000 of which initially went just to Bragg's office and not to Trump's lawyers. Bragg's office has since turned over those 74,000 pages to the defense.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records stemming from alleged hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels, an adult-film actress, during his 2016 presidential campaign. Fox News' Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
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