Trump faces a second judicial front starting tomorrow, but will not attend

The former president of USA donald trump faces a second judicial front starting tomorrow, for a defamation case related to an alleged violation of the writer E.Jean Carrollwhich will begin this Tuesday with the selection of the jury.

Trump unlikely to attend trial: Judge Lewis A Kaplan She has left Trump (76 years old) and Carroll (79) the decision on whether to attend or not, and while the complainant’s lawyers have announced that she intends to attend all the sessions, those of the former president wrote to Kaplan last week announcing that “does not wish to appear at trial”.

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They claimed the “logistics and financial charges” that Trump’s displacement will cause the city counting only the deployment of the secret service that would require his presence many hours before each intervention of his.

But, in addition, Trump has announced an electoral act next Thursday afternoon in New Hampshireas part of the pre-campaign for the 2024 presidential elections, in which the former president starts as a clear favorite among the Republican candidates.

The newspaper The New York Times points out that the trial in the court of the Manhattan Federal District It won’t be very long, and could last between one and two weeks.

For the time being, Judge Kaplan has decided that the jury selected tomorrow will remain anonymous, even for the lawyers for the parties, given the possibility that they may suffer some kind of harassment or attack by Trump supporters.

The hearing will be for two charges: Rape plus defamation

The trial, which opens twenty days after Trump’s first judicial front – for improper payment to the porn actress stormy daniels to silence an extramarital sexual relationship – is celebrated through civil proceedings and responds to two different accusations: an alleged rape of Carroll by Trump in the mid-nineties, plus another for defamation for the same events.

Carroll denounced in 2019, when Trump was still president, that 25 years ago the then businessman cornered her in a changing room of a department store in NY and raped her, facts that she recounted to two friends – called to testify in the case – but that she did not report to the police.

In publicizing the complaint, Trump disqualified her by saying that she was not his “guy”, that all that was “a joke and a lie” and that what she was looking for was free fame to promote a book, among other statements that led to Carroll’s complaint for defamation.

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Although in 2019 such an old rape case had expired, three years later the state of New York opened a one-year legal window to report old sexual crimes.

Thus, the jury and the judge will consider the two charges separately and the sentences, if any, will be separated.

Trump’s legal team has tried to delay the opening of the new case by presenting several requests to Judge Kaplan, the last of them alleging that a period of “calm” to be able to objectively choose the jury, but the judge has stopped all those attempts.

Source: Elcomercio

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