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Choose Juan Merchan has rejected one more try by former President Donald Trump to delay his felony hush cash trial set to start in New York on Monday.
Merchan issued an order Friday denying a movement from Trump’s attorneys to delay the trial because of extreme pretrial publicity. The ruling is hardly a shock, and the newest in a sequence of choices by the courts this week rejecting Trump’s eleventh hour makes an attempt to cease his first felony trial.
“The treatment that Defendant seeks is an indefinite adjournment. This isn’t tenable,” Merchan wrote Friday. “The scenario Defendant finds himself in now just isn’t new to him and not less than partly, of his personal doing.”
Trump’s attorneys made the request to file the movement at a pretrial listening to final month. Merchan had already denied an analogous try however allowed them to file the movement anyway.
Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying enterprise data over the reimbursement of hush cash funds made earlier than the 2016 election to an grownup movie star alleging an affair a decade earlier. Trump has pleaded not responsible and denied the affair.
Jury choice within the trial begins Monday.