The lawyers for former President Donald Trump told a New York judge on Monday that they opposed the media request to disseminate Trump’s indictment on Tuesday.
Trump lawyers said in their letter to the Judge of the Supreme Court of New York, Juan Merchan, he is required to recover the potential security rules.
“As your honor is well aware, this case presents extraordinary security problems (including concerns related to secret services) and we submit that any video or photography of the procedure will only increase these serious concerns,” they wrote.
Among Trump’s lawyers signing the new letter was Todd Blanche, who reported CNN, recently joined the former president’s legal team.
Meanwhile, the Manhattan District Prosecutor’s Office also responded to media request on Monday and said he returned to the judge to decide the best way to manage his courtroom.
However, the district prosecutor’s office wrote that it would be “a defensible exercise in the discretion of the Court to exclude or restrict the videography, photography and radio of the accusation in the interest of avoiding potential prejudices for the accused, to maintain an ordered procedure, to ensure the safety of participants in the procedure, or for other reasons within the authority of the Court to manage and control these procedures.”
But the prosecutors also noted that there “does not seem to be a categorical prohibition on the cameras during an indictment” under the laws and case law of existing New York.
While the District Prosecutor’s Office ceased to oppose the request, his lawyer underlined in Merchan that a similar request for audio-video radiudiffusion was made for the accusation of 2021 in the tax fraud against the Trump organization and its financial director Allen Weisselberg.
The judge responded to this request of 2021 by “allowing a limited number of photographs to be taken before the start of the procedure,” the prosecutors noted on Monday.
CNN is one of the points of sale requesting access to the camera for the indictment of Tuesday.
