Jonathan Majors’ Domestic Violence Trial Pushed To Next Month

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Jonathan Majors’ trial on domestic violence charges will now begin on September 6. With the trial originally set to start today, the new date for the proceedings was announced by Judge Rachel S.

Pauley Thursday at a very short hearing in lower Manhattan after a motion to delay from the defense. Along with his defense lawyers, the Creed III star was present in the courtroom on the fourth floor of 100 Centre Street this morning.

Harlem actress Meagan Good accompanied Majors to court today, as she did earlier this summer. Jonathan Majors enters a Manhattan criminal courtroom today to begin trial stemming from domestic violence charges against the actor pic.twitter.com/4DX6Om8Nw6 Up against misdemeanor charges of assault and harassment, Majors is looking at up to a year behind bars if found guilty.

Led by Priya Chaudhry, Majors’ defense team has insisted from the moment their client was arrested on March 25 that he is not guilty of any assault claims Accusing the NYPD and the overall justice system of “racial bias” and calling the whole matter “a witch hunt,” Majors’ attorneys have repeatedly decried the 30-year-old ex-girlfriend of the Loki actor as the actual perpetrator in the situation.