Mayor Eric Adams leaves court on Feb. 19.
Photo by Dean Moses
A federal judge on Friday hit the brakes on dismissing Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case.
In a Friday ruling, Federal District Judge Dale Ho canceled Adams’ April 21 trial without tossing the case out in its entirety. Instead of granting the motion to dismiss the charges sought by President Trump’s Justice Department, Ho appointed an independent attorney—Paul Clement of the law firm Clement & Murphy PLLC—to argue against the motion.
“To assist with its decision-making via an adversarial process, the Court exercises its inherent authority to appoint Paul Clement of Clement & Murphy PLLC as amicus
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