Everything You Need to Know Heading Into the Trump Trial in New York
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Today marks the start of the first criminal trial of former President Donald Trump in New York City. Trump is facing 34 felony counts for his alleged falsification of business records related to hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and others after the 2016 election. After months of pretrial hearings, motions to dismiss and for an adjournment, motions for recusal, and more, jury selection in the case begins today.
In light of today’s events, Lawfare Associate Editor Katherine Pompilio sat down with Lawfare Legal Fellow and Courts Correspondent Anna Bower, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien, and Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff who will be covering the trial at length. They discussed the case’s background, Trump’s various attempts to delay the proceedings, how jury selection will work, our plans for covering the trial, and more.
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| 0:27.0 | First, you know, you have all these jurors who will show up to court early in the morning. |
| 0:38.8 | They are people who have, you know, been kind of randomly selected. they've received this notice in the mail, |
| 0:45.0 | then they go to court and everyone is, you know, brought before a judge Marshan and |
| 0:51.4 | the first thing that he'll do is read the case caption, read the charges against the defendant. |
| 0:57.0 | And then he'll provide a brief summary of the case. |
| 1:00.0 | I, this really stuck out to me when I was reading that all of this kind of |
| 1:04.7 | information that we know about how the process will work came out in a letter |
| 1:08.9 | that Justice Mershawn just sent to counsel for Trump and for the prosecution. |
| 1:15.7 | And in that letter, he included the case summary |
| 1:18.6 | that he intends to read to the jurors |
| 1:20.9 | whenever they show up on Monday. |
| 1:23.6 | I'm Catherine Pompeio, associate editor of Law Fair. |
| 1:27.0 | And this is the Law Fair Podcast, April 15, 2024. Today marks the start of the first criminal trial of former |
| 1:35.2 | President Donald Trump in New York City. Trump is facing 34 felony |
| 1:39.7 | counts for his alleged falsification of business records related to hush money payments to Stormy Daniels |
| 1:45.1 | and others after the 2016 election. |
| 1:48.9 | After months of pretrial hearings, motions to dismiss and for an adjournment, motions for recusal, and more, jury selection |
| 1:56.0 | in the case begins today. |
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