纽约的一名联邦法官周一否认了前总统唐纳德·特朗普这是美国《Elle》杂志前专栏作家E. Jean Carroll提出的诽谤和殴打案件的最新尝试。
卡罗尔11月起诉特朗普声称他否认了她关于特朗普20世纪90年代在百货公司更衣室强奸她的指控，称她是骗子，这是对她的诽谤。根据最近通过的纽约法律，她增加了一项殴打罪，该法律允许性虐待的成年幸存者起诉他们所谓的攻击者，而不管诉讼时效。
特朗普多次否认卡罗尔的指控。
法宝争取延期一个月审判定于4月25日开始，他认为在媒体对他进行大量报道后，“冷却”期是必要的刑事起诉书涉嫌封口费向一名成人电影女演员付款。
法官称这种报道可能会妨碍选择公正的陪审团的说法是“纯粹的猜测”
“没有理由休庭，”法官刘易斯·卡普兰裁定。"此案与国家检察机关完全无关。"
2023年4月14日，前总统唐纳德·特朗普在印第安纳波利斯的全国步枪协会(NRA)年会上发表讲话。
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法官明确提醒说，特朗普寻求的推迟可能是一件喜忧参半的事情。
“事件发生在延期期间。有时他们会让事情变得更糟，”卡普兰在这份决定中写道，并指出特朗普面临的多重犯罪和调查。
“这些事情中至少有一件的发展，以及特朗普先生与任何事情有关的行动和声明，很可能会引起强烈的宣传，在某些方面，特朗普先生可能会声称在本案中有偏见，”法官说。“特朗普先生认为，本案推迟一个月的审判将确保在挑选陪审团之前的一段时间内没有任何此类进展，这是不现实的。”
Judge denies Trump's request for delay in E. Jean Carroll defamation, battery trial
A federal judge in New York on Monday denied former PresidentDonald Trump's latest attempt to delay the trial in the defamation and battery case brought by former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll.
Carrollsued Trump in November, alleging he defamed her by calling her a liar when he denied her claim that Trump raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. She added a charge of battery under a recently adopted New York law that allows adult survivors of sexual abuse to sue their alleged attacker regardless of the statute of limitations.
Trump has repeatedly denied Carroll's allegations.
Trumpsought a one-month delayof the trial, slated to begin on April 25, arguing a "cooling off" period was necessary following intense media coverage of hiscriminal indictmentin Manhattan last month in connection with an alleged hush money payment to an adult film actress.
The judge called the suggestion that the coverage could preclude the selection of a fair jury "pure speculation."
"There is no justification for an adjournment," Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled. "This case is entirely unrelated to the state prosecution."
The judge included a pointed reminder that the postponement Trump sought may be a mixed blessing.
"Events happen during postponements. Sometimes they can make matters worse," Kaplan wrote in this decision, noting the multiple criminal and investigations Trump faces.
"Developments in at least one of these matters, as well as actions and statements by Mr. Trump in relation to any, may well give rise to intense publicity that, in some respects, Mr. Trump might claim to be prejudicial in this case," the judge said. "Mr. Trump's suggestion that a one-month trial postponement in this case would ensure the absence of any such developments in the period immediately preceding jury selection is not realistic."
