New York prosecutors are seeking a limited restraining order barring former President Donald Trump from talking about witnesses and court officials before his trial to “protect the integrity of this criminal proceeding.” trial next month charges that he falsified business records.
“Such a need for protection is compelling,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office said in a court filing Monday. Trump “has long made public and inflammatory statements about participants in various legal proceedings against him, including jurors, witnesses, attorneys and court staff.”
“Those statements, as well as the inevitable reactions they have provoked from the defendant’s followers and allies, may pose a significant and imminent threat to the orderly conduct of this criminal proceeding and cause substantial material prejudice,” Bragg’s office added.
The DA is seeking a “narrowly-drafted order” that prohibits Trump from “making public statements about known or reasonably expected witnesses or directing others to the case,” barring Bragg, members of the trial staff, and prosecutors in the case from talking about them except for members of the DA. . employees and their relatives, potential participation in the investigation or this criminal proceeding and is “any juror” or juror in the case.
He claims that the decision is necessary because “the Defendant uses social networks, speeches, rallies and other public statements to attack those he considers to be rivals, including “courts, judges, various law enforcement agencies and other government officials, and even in other matters separately. separate jurors.’”
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