Mayor Eric Adams’ historic corruption trial date has been set for April 21, 2025, a choose dominated Friday.
The choice by Choose Dale Ho was issued on the finish of a listening to in Manhattan federal court docket over whether or not to throw out the bribery cost, one in all 5 counts that Adams faces.
The trial date is simply months earlier than the June 24, 2025 main, by which Adams faces a slew of Democratic challengers hoping to capitalize upon the mayor’s troubles.
Ho’s ruling got here after Adams’ legal professionals pressed for a trial as quickly as March.
The choose famous that he was “taking very severely the general public’s curiosity in a fast trial,” however added the trial date might nonetheless be modified in a while.
“One thing could come up however that’s the earliest date that we are able to realistically attempt the case,” he stated.
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