Associate Justice Ellen Gesmer of the Appellate Division, a mid-level state appeals court, made the decision after holding a hearing on Trump's last-ditch effort to block the trial judge's ruling on Monday to proceed with the sentencing, scheduled for 10 days before...
Prosecutors have argued that the immense public backlash to the Access Hollywood motivated Trump to kill the Stormy Daniels story in the days before the election. Judge Merchan said he would review the relevant portions of the transcript before making a decision, but said he was inclined to agre...
In a filing to the top New York court, Trump’s attorneys had said Merchan and the state’s mid-level appellate court both “erroneously failed” to stop the sentencing, arguing that the Constitution requires an automatic pause as they appeal and that the sentenc...
A New York appeals court judge rejected Donald Trump’s latest attempt to delay his hush money criminal trial.
Former President Trump’s lawyers asked a federal appeals court to toss his 2020 election subversion case in Washington, D.C., just one day after the Supreme Court declined special counsel Jack Smith’s request to take up Trump’s argument that his actio
Supreme Court. The judge's one-sentence decision didn’t give reasons for her denial. At an emergency hearing about an hour before the ruling, she asked probing questions of prosecutors and Trump's lawyers. The president-elect didn't attend. The ...
Circuit Court of Appeals issued a written opinion upholding the $5 million award that the Manhattan jury granted to E. Jean Carroll for defamation and sexual abuse. The longtime magazine columnist had testified at a 2023 trial that Trump turned a friendly encounter in spring 1996 into a violent...
Sentencing was first scheduled for July 11, but pushed back after the Supreme Court's landmark decision on presidential immunity. A Sept. 18 date was later postponed in order to avoid interfering with the presidential campaign. When Trump was elected, a Nov. 26 hearing was scrapped as the si...
Trump's standing with the jury.Trump asked for a new trial after a jury unanimously concluded in May 2023 that a preponderance of evidence supported Carroll's claim that Trump sexually abused her during a mid-1990s encounter in a New York City department store. Monday's 77-page decision ...
s sentencing could take place despite his upcoming inauguration, rejecting the incoming president’s arguments that his election victory should mark an end to the case. The judge previously decided that the conviction could withstand the Supreme Court’s landmark decision carving out criminal immunity...