Justice Merchan Denies Trump Request for Sanctions Against Prosecutors
Published on May 24, 2024
A New York judge on Thursday denied former President Donald Trump’s request to sanction prosecutors over a last-minute evidence dump in a case charging him with 34 counts of falsifying business records. President Trump’s attorneys have previously filed a motion for discovery sanctions and adjournment of trial after the prosecutors handed over 100,000 pages of documents just weeks before the trial. The former president’s lawyers argued that the prosecutors were engaged in “widespread misconduct including the suppression of evidence to obstruct the Defendant’s efforts to obtain said evidence, to interfere in the 2024 Presidential Election, and the improper invoking of Federal law and Federal immunities and work product privileges.”...