Trump lawyer asks to postpone trial for a month on charges of sexual harassment

Lawyer Donald Trump, Joe Tacopina appealed to the judge considering the assault and defamation lawsuit filed by the writer E. Jean Carroll delay the start of the trial by a month to allow time for “thinking” after his client was accused of 34 criminal charges for falsifying business records to cover up a “secret” payment to porn model Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.

By letter, Takopin argued with Judge Lewis A. Kaplan. “recent spate of negative media coverage” around Trump’s arrest and appearing in court with arguments in favor of a delay.

“Definitely President Trump is a constant topic of media coveragebut the current situation is unique in that, as noted above, recent coverage concerns alleged sexual harassment, the very issue at the center of this trial,” Takopina said in a letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan, which he had access to AP. .

Court scheduled for 25 April was put forward against Trump in November by E. Jean Carroll, who claims that victim of sexual abuse by a former president in the 1990s after a chance meeting at the Bergdorf Goodman department store.

Trump, for his part, denied the allegations. He even mentioned that the writer was “not his type” and that even the writer made up the story to sell more books.

The jury will decide whether there has been a violation and whether Trump vilified Carroll with his comments.

Although the violations were committed many years ago, A temporary state law, effective in 2022, allows adult rape victims to sue their abusers.

Author: Maribel Velasquez
Source: La Opinion

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