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**A Manhattan choose yesterday modified the gag order he had issued to Donald Trump, permitting the previous president to remark publicly on witnesses and jurors within the trial that led to his conviction for critical crimes. However different individuals related to the case stay banned till he’s sentenced on July 11 **.
The choice by Choose Juan M. Merchan – just some days earlier than the controversy that Trump will maintain tomorrow with President Joe Biden – authorizes the digital Republican presidential candidate to as soon as once more assault his former lawyer Michael Cohen, the porn actress Stormy Daniels and others trial witnesses. Trump was convicted in New York on Could 30 of falsifying data to cowl up a attainable intercourse scandal, making him the primary former US president convicted of a criminal offense.
In a five-page ruling, Merchan wrote that the gag order was meant to “defend the integrity of the judicial proceedings” and that protections for witnesses and jurors now not apply now that the trial has ended and the jury has been allotted.
Merchan mentioned it had been his “choice” to proceed prohibiting Trump from commenting on the jurors, whose names haven’t been made public, however that he couldn’t justify it.
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2024-06-26 12:38:25