Under the 5th Amendment, the jury is prohibited from holding it against former President Donald Trump if he does not testify.
If former President Donald Trump chooses to testify in his , Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg says prosecutors want to question Trump about a host of his recent high-profile legal defeats to attack his credibility, according to a filing that was made public Wednesday.
The list of misconduct includes the recently handed down in another New York court, a pair of unanimous civil federal jury verdicts finding him liable for defamation and sexual abuse of the writer E. Jean Carroll, gag order violations and sanctions for what a judge concluded was a “frivolous, bad faith lawsuit” against Hillary Clinton. That suit, which was dismissed in 2022, accused Clinton and others of conspiring to hurt Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign by alleging he colluded with the Russian government.
The notice is for what’s called a Sandoval hearing, when a judge determines the permissible scope of cross-examination and whether a defendant’s prior bad acts can be raised if they choose to testify.
