Lawyers of the former US president donald trump they asked The trial, scheduled for April 25, was postponed for a month accused of raping the author E. Jean Carroll He defamed her thirty years ago and recently, according to a document released by the court Wednesday.
Trump’s defense states that “the right to a fair trial is a short cooling timeAfter the “rain of damaging media coverage for his indictment” in a criminal case for allegedly making improper payments to silence harmful information before the 2016 election he won.
In the letter addressed to Judge Lewis Kaplan, they caution that holding this trial at the end of April will allow “many, if not all, potential jurors” to “remember” the Manhattan District Attorney’s historic charge. Regarding Trump’s alleged “extramarital affair” with the United States porn actress Stormy Daniels.
Lawyers consider this a “unique case” because, as in the author’s case, “recent news is about alleged sexual harassment”, adding that the large number of news stories stemming from this case has fueled interest in Carroll.
This The new date they want is May 23calculating that at the earliest, a “window of time” would open in which the jury at Carroll’s trial would be “probably more impartial” than now.
In 2019, 79-year-old Carroll accused Trump of rape in a book and a magazine article, publicly dismissing it as a liar and making disparaging comments about her appearance, after which the author decided to launch a legal battle against her for defamation.
At the end of 2022, Carroll added a new charge for injuries resulting from a rape claim, as a statutory period was opened in New York City to seek civil justice in cases involving sexual violence anticipated up to that time.