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    • New York appeals judge rejects Donald Trump's request to delay his April 15 hush money trial

    Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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    A New York appeals court judge on Monday rejected Donald Trump's bid to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial while he mounts a last-minute fight to move the case out of Manhattan, foiling the former president鈥檚 latest attempt to put off the historic trial.

    Justice Lizbeth Gonz谩lez of the state鈥檚 mid-level appeals court ruled after an emergency hearing Monday where Trump's lawyers asked that she postpone the trial indefinitely while they seek a change of venue.

    They contended the presumptive Republican nominee faces 鈥渞eal potential prejudice鈥 in heavily Democratic Manhattan and said the jury pool has been polluted by news coverage of Trump's other recent cases, including his US$454 million civil fraud judgment and the US$83.3 million he's been ordered to pay for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. He is appealing both verdicts.

    鈥淛ury selection cannot proceed in a fair manner,鈥 Trump lawyer Emil Bove argued, citing the defense's polling and a review of media coverage.

    Trump's hush money trial is the first of his four criminal indictments slated to go to trial and would be the first criminal trial ever of a former president.

    In a separate appellate matter, Trump鈥檚 lawyers are challenging a gag order barring him from making comments about jurors, witnesses and others connected to the case. The trial judge, Juan M. Merchan, recently expanded the gag order after Trump lashed out at his daughter, a Democratic political consultant, on social media. The appeals court will hear that matter Tuesday.

    Trump, who lived in Manhattan for decades and rose to fame as a real estate developer shaping its iconic skyline, has suggested the trial should be moved to Staten Island, the only New York City borough he won in 2016 and 2020.

    Steven Wu, the appellate chief for the Manhattan district attorney's office, noted that Merchan, had already rejected Trump's requests to move or delay the trial as untimely.

    鈥淭he question in this case is not whether a random poll of New Yorkers from whatever neighborhood are able to be impartial, it鈥檚 about whether a trial court is able to select a jury of 12 impartial jurors,鈥 Wu said.

    He blamed Trump for stoking pretrial publicity with "countless media appearances talking about the facts of this case, the witnesses, and so on.鈥

    As the appeals court fight was playing out, Merchan released his plan Monday for conducting jury selection, including what jurors will and won鈥檛 be asked about their views on Trump.

    In a letter to both sides, Merchan declared that choosing jurors isn鈥檛 about whether they like or don鈥檛 like anyone in the case but whether prospective jurors can assure they will "set aside any personal feelings or biases and render a decision that is based on the evidence and the law.鈥

    Paperwork relating to Trump's appeals was placed under seal and not publicly available.

    Trump had pledged to appeal after Merchan ruled last month that the trial would begin April 15. His lawyers had pleaded to delay the trial at least until summer to give them more time to review late-arriving evidence from a prior federal investigation into the matter. Merchan, who had already moved the trial from its original March 25 start date, said no further delays were warranted.

    Trump's lawyers filed their appeals Monday on two separate court dockets. One was styled as a lawsuit against Merchan, a legal mechanism allowing them to challenge his rulings.

    In New York, judges can be sued over some judicial decisions under a state law known as Article 78. Trump has used the tactic before, including against the judge in his civil fraud case in an unsuccessful last-minute bid to delay that case last fall.

    In the hush-money criminal case, he is accused of falsifying his company鈥檚 records to hide the nature of payments to his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, who helped him bury negative stories during his 2016 campaign. Cohen鈥檚 activities included paying porn actor Stormy Daniels $130,000 to suppress her claims of an extramarital sexual encounter with Trump years earlier.

    Trump pleaded not guilty last year to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. He has denied having a sexual encounter with Daniels. His lawyers argue the payments to Cohen were legitimate legal expenses.

    As Trump鈥檚 lawyers stressed Monday that he was facing an unprecedented level of damaging publicity in Manhattan, they also referenced a decision issued by the state鈥檚 appellate court more than 25 years ago.

    In that case, the court agreed to move the trial of four New York City police officers charged with killing Amadou Diallo, an unarmed Guinean student, in the Bronx. Citing the 鈥減ublic clamor鈥 in the city, the court agreed to move the trial to Albany, where the officers were ultimately acquitted.

    Trump's move to the appeals court Monday is the latest escalation in his battles with Merchan.

    Last week, Trump renewed his request for the judge to step aside from the case, citing Merchan's daughter's work as the head of a firm whose clients have included his rival President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats.

    The former president alleges the judge is biased against him and has a conflict of interest because of his daughter鈥檚 work. The judge rejected a similar request last August.

    If the hush-money trial were to be moved out of Manhattan, it's unlikely Merchan would go with it. In past cases, like the Diallo matter, a new judge was picked from the county where the trial ended up being held.

    Trump has also made numerous other attempts to get the trial postponed, echoing a strategy he's deployed in his other criminal cases. 鈥淲e want delays,鈥 Trump proclaimed to TV cameras outside a February pretrial hearing in his hush money case.

    Merchan last week rejected his request to delay the trial until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases.

    Trump also filed an eve-of-trial lawsuit against the judge in his New York civil fraud case, accusing the jurist of repeatedly abusing his authority. Among other issues, Trump鈥檚 lawyers in that case complained that Judge Arthur Engoron had refused their request to delay the trial. Their suit was filed about three weeks before the trial was slated to begin.

    A state appeals court rejected Trump鈥檚 claims, and the trial started as scheduled Oct. 2.

    Engoron, who decided that case without a jury, ruled that Trump, his company and key executives defrauded bankers and insurers by overstating his wealth in documents used to get loans and coverage. Trump denied any wrongdoing and is appealing the finding and staggering penalty. 

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