On April 15, 2024, former US President Trump appeared before jury selection began at the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York.
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The final five alternate jurors in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial in New York will be confirmed on Friday, a day after a full 12-person jury and one alternate were seated.
Judge Juan Merchant expects opening arguments in the Manhattan Supreme Court trial to begin Monday.
The fourth day of the former president’s historic trial is also expected to include hearing The goal is to inform Trump what prosecutors might question him if he decides to testify under oath.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office said it hopes to challenge Trump’s credibility if he testifies by asking about his various other legal troubles, including two high-profile cases he was ordered to pay in New York. Civil Judgment.
In February of this year, a state judge found that Trump fraudulently inflated the value of his assets to increase his net worth and obtain financial benefits. Trump was ordered to pay $454 million in penalties and interest.
In a January ruling in a federal civil court in New York, Trump was ordered to pay $83 million to author E. Jean Carroll for denying his claims that he He allegedly raped her in a Manhattan department store dressing room. A separate federal jury previously found Trump liable for Carroll’s sexual abuse.
Trump is appealing the business fraud and defamation convictions. Merchants will decide whether to allow this line of questioning at what are known as Sandoval hearings.
Trump says he will testify in hush money trial. He doesn’t need to do this.
The Republican presidential candidate angrily called the trial a “scam” and a “witch hunt” designed to hurt his electoral chances against President Joe Biden.
Trump has been charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of a scheme to cover up hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. Had sex with Trump.
Bragg claimed that the payments from Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen were intended to influence the 2016 presidential election by withholding damaging information from voters. Trump denies having sex with Daniels.
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