New York prosecutors have urged a judge to start Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial April 15, saying defense requests for further delays or dismissal of the case because of a last-minute evidence dump are a “red herring.”
New York prosecutors on Thursday urged a judge to start Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial on April 15, saying the defense's calls for further delays or dismissal of the case because of a last-minute evidence dump were a “red herring.
Prosecutors said in a court filing Thursday that the Trump legal team's allegations were “wholly unfounded, and the circumstances here do not come close to warranting the extreme sanctions” that are being sought. They said there was no discovery violation because evidence-sharing rules apply only to material in their possession — not evidence kept by outside parties like the U.S. attorney’s office. Prosecutors contend Trump’s lawyers caused the problem by waiting until Jan.
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