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Neither side asked for one
Former President Donald Trump has complained repeatedly that the civil trial in New York, where he’s accused of business fraud, does not have a jury – and the fate of the case is up to Judge ...
Justice Arthur Engoron presides over the civil fraud trial of the Trump Organization at the New York State Supreme Court in New York City Nov. 13, 2023.
But Mr Trump and his co-defendants could have avoided an outcome determined by Judge Engoron is their attorneys simply requested a jury. The judge explained during the first day of the trial on 2 ...
Trump's lawyer Alina Habba claimed that Trump wanted a jury trial, but the form filed by his lawyers indicates that they consented to a "trial without jury". [237] [238] Judge Engoron later said that a jury trial would not have been an option, since the state was only seeking disgorgement of ill-gotten gains and was not seeking damages. [239]
A spokesman for the court told NBC New York at the time, “No ex parte conversaion concerning this matter occurred between Justice Engoron and Mr. Bailey or any other person.
He spent more than a decade in private practice and 12 years clerking for a state judge before becoming a civil court judge in 2003. Voters elected him to the state Supreme Court, a trial court ...
In 1991, he became a law clerk for Martin Schoenfeld, [3] [7] an Administrative Law Judge for the Social Security Administration. [8] [2] [6] [9] In 2002, Engoron was elected judge to the New York City Civil Court. In 2013, he was appointed acting justice to the Manhattan Supreme Court. He ran unopposed for a permanent position to that court in ...