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Accusations of falsifying business records, Court partially lifts restrictions on former President Trump

2024-06-26 07:42:22Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Accusations of falsifying business records, Court partially lifts restrictions

A Manhattan judge on Tuesday lifted some of the restrictions placed on Mr. Trump to comment publicly to witnesses and jurors in the criminal trial in the pay-to-buy-silence case. Mr. Trump was found guilty by a jury. Some of the other restrictions will remain in effect until sentencing on July 11. Judge Juan M. Merchan's decision, just days before Mr. Trump's Thursday debate with President Joe Biden, allows the Republican candidate to continue his attacks against his former lawyer Michael Cohen, porn star Stormy Daniels and other trial witnesses. On May 30, a jury in New York found Mr Trump guilty on charges of falsifying business records to cover up a potential sex scandal, making him the first former US president to be found guilty of a felony.

In the five-page ruling, Judge Merchan wrote that the order was intended to "protect the integrity of legal proceedings" and that such protections for witnesses and jurors are not necessary now that the trial is over and the jury has been dismissed. Judge Merchan wrote that he had "strong convictions" to continue barring Mr. Trump from commenting on the jurors, whose names have not been made public, but he could not justify doing so. The judge upheld a separate order barring Mr. Trump and his lawyers from disclosing the jurors' identities or their addresses. Former President Trump's attorney, Todd Blanche, said after the verdict that the defense team had destroyed that record.

"There is sufficient evidence to justify continued inconvenience to the jurors," Judge Merchan wrote in Tuesday's ruling. Judge Merchan also upheld the order that Mr. Trump cannot comment on court employees, the prosecution team and their families pending a decision on the former president's sentence, writing that they must "continue to perform their legal duties." without threats, intimidation, harassment and harm".

Those restrictions do not prevent Mr. Trump from commenting on the judge himself or on prosecutor Alvin Bragg, whose office prosecuted the case. Mr. Trump's lawyers had asked Judge Merchan to lift the order entirely, arguing that there was nothing to justify limiting the former president's First Amendment rights after the trial. Former President Trump has said the restraining order prevented him from defending himself as Mr. Cohen and Ms. Daniels continued to attack him.

Falsifying business records is a felony punishable by up to 4 years in prison, although prosecutors have not said whether they will seek prison terms, and it is unclear whether the judge would impose such a measure as well. if asked. Conviction, or even imprisonment, does not prevent Mr. Trump from continuing the race for the White House. Prosecutors say Mr. Trump falsified business records to hide reimbursements to his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 during the final weeks of the 2016 campaign to get her to not to go public with her allegations of a sexual relationship with Mr. Trump a decade ago.
The former president and at the same time the expected candidate for president of the Republican Party has declared that he is innocent. He has denied having sex with Ms. Daniels and says the payments to Mr. Cohen were properly recorded in the company's records as legal expenses./VOA


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