NY Judge Delays Trump Trial as Defense Seeks Sanctions, Dismissal

New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan adjourned an upcoming trial for former President Donald Trump for 30 days, scheduling a March 25 hearing on the possible dismissal of the case, after which he “will set the new trial date, if necessary.” The decision follows a discovery dump of 104,000 pages on President Trump’s attorneys less than three weeks before the trial was set to begin. The judge demanded both parties to supply a “detailed timeline of events surrounding the requests and ultimate production” of those documents by March 21. In recent notices and letters to the court, the prosecution and defense presented different narratives about the unusual discovery production, which had been produced in a batch of 73,000 pages on March 4 and 31,000 more pages days later....