{"id":2219771,"date":"2024-04-12T19:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T23:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-merchan-hands-trump-another-loss-with-rejection-for-publicity-related-delay\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T19:21:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T23:21:03","slug":"judge-merchan-hands-trump-another-loss-with-rejection-for-publicity-related-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-merchan-hands-trump-another-loss-with-rejection-for-publicity-related-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Merchan denies Trump&#8217;s request for a delay tied to publicity concerns, marking another legal setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-merchan-hands-trump-another-loss-with-rejection-for-publicity-related-delay%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2219771&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>New York Judge Juan Merchan rejected former President Donald Trump&#8217;s last-minute request to\u200b postpone his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trumps-criminal-hush-money-trial-set-for-march-25\/\" title=\"Trump's hush money trial scheduled for March 25\">hush money trial<\/a> citing concerns about media influence on trial\u2062 fairness. Judge Merchan affirmed that delaying the trial indefinitely was not feasible and confirmed its start on April 15, \u200cwith jury selection beginning on Monday. The trial\u2064 will proceed as scheduled despite Trump&#8217;s objections. Your\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-identifying-euphoria-star-no-longer-interested-in-playing-trans-parts-i-find-it-ultimately-demeaning\/\" title=\"Euphoria Star No Longer Wants to Play Trans Roles, Finding It Demeaning\">summary \u200deffectively captures<\/a> the key points: Judge Juan\u2062 Merchan denied Donald Trump&#8217;s\u200c request to delay his hush money trial due to media\u2064 influence concerns, confirming the trial&#8217;s commencement on April 15 with jury selection starting soon. Trump&#8217;s objections\u200c were \u200doverruled, and the trial will proceed as planned.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>New York<\/a> Judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/2958873\/read-questions-prospective-trump-jurors-answer-before-theyre-selected-hush-money-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Juan Merchan<\/a> rejected former President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> last-minute attempt to delay his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/2963573\/what-to-know-about-jury-selection-ahead-of-trump-hush-money-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>hush money trial<\/a> on Friday after Trump claimed that press coverage of the case would affect the fairness of the trial.<\/p>\n<p>Merchan said the idea that the trial, which begins jury selection on Monday, should be delayed \u201cindefinitely\u201d is not \u201ctenable\u201d and that the trial would begin as scheduled on April 15.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Trump] appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality,\u201d the judge <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-hush-money-trial-4c79619c5e89e13d672e070a4244a302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>wrote<\/a> in his order.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s lawyers attempted to argue that jury members could be biased because of the press coverage, which they labeled as \u201cextremely prejudicial.\u201d But prosecutors claimed much of the attention on the case was the former president\u2019s own fault and that it was not likely to die down.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors also noted that <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Manhattan<\/a> had more than a million people in its city limits, so surely 12 of them would be \u201cimpartial.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s decision is the latest rejection of Trump\u2019s attempts to delay the trial, which looks into whether Trump doctored his company\u2019s records in order to hide a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-rejects-trump-bid-to-shield-financial-records\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid To Shield Financial Records\">hush money payment<\/a> to his former lawyer and fixer <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/michael-cohen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Michael Cohen<\/a>. The money was allegedly given to former porn star <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/stormy-daniels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Stormy Daniels<\/a> in 2016 to keep her quiet about an alleged affair she had with Trump years earlier. Trump has denied the sexual encounter.<\/p>\n<p>The trial will be the first of his four criminal cases to go to trial and will be the first trial of a former president in U.S. history. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all 34 counts of falsifying his business records. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump has also tried to get the trial delayed on the appellate level, but all attempts have been denied so far. <\/p>\n<p>The<em> Washington Examiner<\/em> has reached out to Trump\u2019s attorneys for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s attempt to postpone his hush money trial was dismissed by New York Judge Juan Merchan. Trump argued that media coverage could impact the trial&#8217;s fairness. Merchan disagreed, stating that delaying the trial &#8220;indefinitely&#8221; is unfounded as jury selection commences on Monday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2643,"featured_media":2219772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24103679430574-1-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2219771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24103679430574-1-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2219772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}