Ada County District Judge Michael Reardon has denied a motion to postpone the upcoming felony rape trial for former Lewiston state Representative Aaron von Ehlinger.
Defense attorney Jon Cox was seeking to postpone the trial, which is scheduled to begin next Tuesday, to sometime this fall.
Von Ehlinger faces two felony counts of rape and sexual penetration with a foreign object.
The charges stem from a dinner date von Ehlinger had with a 19-year-old House intern in March 2021, during his first year in the Idaho Legislature. He has maintained the sex was consensual and has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
