The decision came on Monday, a week before jury selection was set to start.
A New York appeals court judge has rejected former US president Donald Trump’s request to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial while he fights to move the case out of Manhattan.Mr Trump’s lawyers had argued at an emergency hearing that the trial should be postponed while they seek a change of venue to move it out of heavily Democratic Manhattan.
Lawyers for former president Donald Trump, Emil Bove, left, and Todd Blanche, right, leave the New York State appellate court on Monday Trump lawyer Emil Bove argued that the presumptive Republican nominee faces “real potential prejudice” as a defendant in heavily Democratic Manhattan. Citing defence surveys and a review of media coverage, Bove argued that jury selection, scheduled to start next Monday, “cannot proceed in a fair manner”.
“The question in this case is not whether a random poll of New Yorkers from whatever neighbourhood are able to be impartial, it’s about whether a trial court is able to select a jury of 12 impartial jurors,” Mr Wu said. He blamed Mr Trump for stoking pretrial publicity with “countless media appearances talking about the facts of this case, the witnesses, and so on”.
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