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Donald Trump’s effort to push back the Manhattan hush-money trial hit another dead end on April 10, 2024, when a New York appellate judge denied his request for an interim stay of the proceedings. The ruling came after two earlier delay efforts that week had also failed, and the trial schedule stayed in place for jury selection to begin on April 15. ([nycourts.gov](https://www.nycourts.gov/REPORTER/pdfs/2024/2024_32134.pdf))

The application before the Appellate Division, First Department, was an emergency bid tied to Trump’s challenge to the trial court’s April 1 order restricting extrajudicial statements. In the trial court’s later June 25 decision, Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump filed the Article 78 petition on April 8, the appellate court heard argument on April 10, and the request for an interim stay of the trial was denied that same day. ([nycourts.gov](https://www.nycourts.gov/REPORTER/pdfs/2024/2024_32134.pdf))

The case remained on track for jury selection on April 15. The April 10 ruling dealt with the requested delay, not the criminal charges themselves. Those charges allege that Trump falsified business records in connection with hush money paid before the 2016 election. ([nycourts.gov](https://www.nycourts.gov/REPORTER/pdfs/2024/2024_32134.pdf))