Former President Donald Trump is not going to be handcuffed when he surrenders subsequent week in New York to face legal expenses, beneath the phrases of a deal agreed between his protection attorneys and Manhattan prosecutors, protection lawyer Joe Tacopina mentioned on Friday.
Tacopina mentioned in an interview that he anticipated the arrest in any other case to proceed as a matter of routine on Tuesday, when Trump is because of seem to face an indictment following a grand jury investigation of a hush cash fee to porn star Stormy Daniels throughout Trump’s 2016 marketing campaign.
“I do not know the way all that is going to go down. There isn’t any textbook to see the way you arraign a former president of the USA in legal court docket,” Tacopina mentioned.
Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg’s workplace couldn’t instantly be reached for response to Tacopina’s feedback.
Tacopina mentioned Trump and his protection staff had been shocked by information of the indictment: “Initially we had been all shocked. Did not consider they had been truly going to undergo with this as a result of there is no crime right here.”