Trump lawyer seeks ‘cooling off’ interval in trial over rape declare

NEW YORK — An lawyer for Donald Trump is in search of a one-month delay within the trial relating to a columnist’s claims that Trump raped her in a division retailer dressing room within the Nineteen Nineties, contending that his consumer’s proper to a good trial will depend on a “cooling off” interval following the previous president’s indictment and arraignment.

The trial was set for April 25. In a letter Tuesday to Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, lawyer Joseph Tacopina cited “the recent deluge of prejudicial media coverage” surrounding Trump’s arrest and court docket look in arguing for a delay. The former president was charged March 30 with 34 felony counts associated to allegations that he paid hush cash to an grownup movie star, Stormy Daniels.

The civil case earlier than Kaplan was introduced towards Trump in November by E. Jean Carroll, a columnist who says the rich actual property developer raped her in early 1996 after an opportunity assembly on the Bergdorf Goodman division retailer.

Trump has repeatedly and emphatically denied the allegation. A jury can be requested to determine whether or not the rape occurred and if Trump defamed Carroll together with his feedback.

A short lived state legislation that took impact final yr permits grownup rape victims to sue their abusers, even when assaults occurred a long time in the past.