Menendez And Wife File Requests For Separate Trials

The New York Times reports:

Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey and his wife, Nadine Menendez, were both charged last fall in a broad federal corruption case in which they were accused of accepting cash and gold bribes. Now their marriage itself is the centerpiece of a new legal argument. Both Mr. and Ms. Menendez are seeking to split their case and have separate trials, according to papers that each of their lawyers filed late Monday.

His testimony,” her lawyers wrote, “could include revealing confidential marital communications with Ms. Menendez that Senator Menendez deems essential and material to his defense.” Husbands and wives cannot typically be forced to testify against each other. And Ms. Menendez wants to maintain the confidentiality of her communications with her husband, her lawyers wrote to the judge.

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