The New York pass judgement on overseeing Donald Trump’s hush money trial has requested legal professionals in the case about a social media post purporting to preview the previous president’s to blame verdict.
“Today, the Court became aware of a comment that was posted on the Unified Court System’s public Facebook page and which I now bring to your attention,” Judge Juan Merchan wrote in a letter dated Friday.
“My cousin is a juror and said Trump is getting convicted,” the post mentioned, in accordance to Merchan’s letter. “Thank you folks for all your hard work!!!!”
Merchan stated that the remark, which was once attributed to a consumer recognized as Michael Anderson, was once “now labeled as one week old,” and was once posted in reaction to a regimen understand from the courtroom posted on May 29 about oral arguments unrelated to court cases in Trump’s case.
When a defendant who has been convicted via a jury however has now not but been sentenced learns of alleged jury misconduct, he can transfer to put aside the verdict below New York legal process regulation. If a defendant can turn out that jury misconduct “may have affected a substantial right of the defendant,” the treatment is a brand new trial.
NBC News has now not verified the claims made in the remark or the identification of the consumer who printed the post, which has since been deleted. NBC News additionally hasn’t independently showed the remark’s life.
A Trump marketing campaign professional stated “we’re investigating” when requested about Merchan’s letter.
Attorneys for Trump didn’t right away reply to a request for touch upon Friday afternoon, nor did a spokesperson for the Manhattan district lawyer’s administrative center.
Trump was once convicted final month on 34 counts of falsifying industry information tied to reimbursing Cohen for hush money paid to Daniels in the overall days of the 2016 marketing campaign. Trump had pleaded now not to blame in the case and denied Daniels’ claims that she had a sexual come across with him in 2006. Trump’s sentencing in the case is scheduled for July 11.
