Michael Cohen is still under court supervised release from his conviction from 2018. He applied for an early termination of supervised release.
The judge turned him down and pointed out some stuff that will affect the NY Criminal trial https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24489780/18cr602-cohen-opinion.pdf
It gives rise to two possibilities: one, Cohen committed perjury when he pleaded guilty before Judge Pauley or, two, Cohen committed perjury in his October 2023 testimony
Cohen is the lead witness in the Trump NY criminal trial.
Alina Habba tweeted
@AlinaHabba Judge Furman confirmed what we already know: That Michael Cohen committed perjury and should be prosecuted. As the Manhattan DA says on their website “one standard of justice for all”.
The Judge in the NY trial made a bunch of rulings on requests from Trump's team
-The jurors will not see the Access Hollywood video.
-Witnesses can still be asked about the tape.
-Trump wanted the judge to prevent Michael Cohen, Dino Sajudin, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal from testifying. The judge denied this. The prosecutor will have to show why Sajudin and McDougal's testimony is relevant.
It seems the judge is not giving Trump everything he wants, but is trying to keep the salacious aspects of the case out of the courtroom.
-A polygraph Stormy Daniels took will be kept out of the courtroom.
-Notes from Alan Weisselberg might be allow if the prosecutors land the proper foundation.
https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/pdfs/Dec%20on%20Defendant's%20MIL.pdf
they need all that dignity for the ballot