A New York State appellate panel denied Donald Trump’s appeal to move his criminal trial out of Manhattan to another county.
The panel denied the appeal with no further explanation in a short ruling Thursday as summations are scheduled to begin in the seventh week of Trump’s criminal trial tied to an alleged hush money scheme ahead of the 2016 election.
Trump’s lawyers had first filed the appeal on the last day of jury selection last month, and the routine procedure for a full review of the appeal took several weeks to complete, as expected. It’s one of two Trump motions that were denied by the appeals courts last Thursday.
The denials close the loop on Trump motions included in a blitz of strategic appellate actions aimed at delaying the trial before it got underway last month. All of Trump’s emergency appellate requests to delay the trial were denied at the time, and since then, the court has denied Trump’s motions on the underlying issues.
The prosecution and Trump’s defense have rested in the Manhattan criminal trial and the jury is set to hear closing arguments this week.
A single appellate judge had denied Trump’s request to stop the trial in its tracks pending a decision on the venue appeal during an emergency hearing held on the same day the jury panel was finalized last month.
At the hearing, Trump’s attorney Cliff Robert said seating a jury in three days after so many jurors were dismissed for cause over bias is “untenable.”
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