Reuters/Jane Rosenberg
- Trump's New York hush-money trial is now back on track for mid-April.
- Justice Juan Merchan agreed Friday to push back the original March 25 start date.
- The delay will give Merchan, prosecutors, and defense lawyers time to contend with late evidence.
The Manhattan judge who will preside over Donald Trump's first criminal trial agreed on Friday to push back the original March 25 trial start date by about three weeks.
The delay was prompted by the last-minute production by federal prosecutors in Manhattan of some 80,000 pages of potential evidence concerning their 2018 prosecution of key witness Michael Cohen.