Trial
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Menendez Corruption Trial Delayed for One Week
The senator’s trial will start May 13, a week later than planned, to give defense lawyers more time to prepare.
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Donald Trump and American Justice
The former and possibly future president of the United States is now on trial in Lower Manhattan, the first criminal prosecution of an American elected to the nation’s highest office. Donald Trump, who relentlessly undermined the justice system while ...
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Day 1 of Trump’s Criminal Trial: Five Takeaways
The criminal trial of Donald J. Trump, the nation’s 45th president and the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, started Monday with potential jurors assembling in a drab courtroom in New York City while Mr. Trump looked on. Mr. Trump was charged ...
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Judge in Trump’s Criminal Trial Declines to Recuse Himself
Juan M. Merchan, the judge overseeing Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan, has declined to step aside from the case, rejecting the former president’s effort to delay the trial and attack his integrity. The judge announced the decision in ...
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In the 2024 Race, Trump’s Trial Is About to Take Center Stage
The race for president will shift much of its focus to a Manhattan courtroom. “This looks like no other presidential campaign in the history of the country,” one Republican pollster said.
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I’ve Been a Jury Consultant in High-Profile Cases. Trump Can Get a Fair Trial in New York.
If Donald Trump has been clear about anything, it is this: “I cannot get a fair trial in New York.” By New York, he means Manhattan, where he won slightly less than 10 percent of the vote in 2016 and about 12 percent in 2020 and where, as one of his ...
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O.J. Simpson Trial Served as a Landmark Moment for Domestic Violence Awareness
His acquittal in the infamous trial involving Nicole Brown Simpson’s death prompted powerful backlash that helped change the perception around domestic violence.
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Arts
The O.J. Joke: How the Simpson Case Changed Comedy’s Boundaries
Norm Macdonald and Jay Leno made the double homicides such a constant topic that refraining from jokes the way David Letterman did was noticeable.
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Senator Menendez and His Wife Will Be Tried Separately in Bribery Case
Nadine Menendez had alerted the court to a health issue and requested a postponement. On Thursday, a judge said Robert Menendez’s case would proceed as scheduled. His wife’s trial will be delayed.
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Nadine Menendez Reveals ‘Serious Medical’ Issue and Asks for Trial Delay
Ms. Menendez, the wife of Senator Robert Menendez, needs surgery, leaving her unable to prepare for a May 6 trial on bribery charges, her lawyers said.
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