Show threadNonilexJun 25, 2024

Prosecutors w/Manhattan DA #AlvinBragg's office said limits on Trump's speech about trial witnesses were no longer needed. But they urged Justice Juan #Merchan to keep in place restrictions on his comments about #jurors, #CourtStaff & individual #prosecutors, citing risks to their #safety.

#law #criminal #Trump #witnesses #GagOrder #FalsifiedBusinessRecords #ElectionInterference #StochasticTerrorism

NonilexJun 5, 2024

#Trump asks NY judge to drop #GagOrder after #FalsificationOfBusinessRecords #ElectionInterference conviction

Trump has asked Justice #Merchan to terminate the gag order that barred him from #attacking #witnesses, #jurors, #prosecutors, #CourtStaff & #family of those people throughout his 6-wk trial.

#criminal #law #FeloniousTrump #ElectionInterference #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #PoliticalViolence #Terrorism #extremism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/04/trump-gag-order-new-york-merchan/

Trump asks N.Y. judge to drop gag order after hush money conviction

Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, said he wants to be able to answer his critics and speak about the trial as he campaigns.

The Washington Post
Show threadNonilexOct 31, 2023

#Chutkan added that #Trump offered nothing that made his #appeal seem likely to succeed.

Trump can ask a higher court for an emergency stay pending appeal, but in the meantime he is bound by Chutkan’s limits.

Under the order, Trump & all interested parties in the case are barred from making or directing others to make public statements that “#target” individual #attorneys, #witnesses, “any reasonably foreseeable witness,” or #CourtStaff involved in the case or the substance of their testimony.