In this courtroom sketch, Donald Trump appears in state court in Manhattan, New Jersey, during a pretrial hearing on charges that he falsified business records to conceal funds paid to hush porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016. – Former US President Trump appears before Judge Juan Machan via video conference. City of York, May 23, 2023.
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Prosecutors will tell a judge on Tuesday whether they think the hush-money criminal case against President-elect Donald Trump should proceed to sentencing as scheduled, or be dismissed after Trump wins the election, as his lawyers have requested. It’s planned.
The New York case is one of four criminal charges against President Trump, whose fate is up in the air, or almost doomed, since the Republican Party won the election two weeks ago over Vice President Kamala Harris. It’s in
Trump was convicted in Manhattan in May. supreme court 34 of the felony counts of falsifying business records.
These records were made shortly before the 2016 election by then-personal attorney Michael Cohen to buy the porn actress’ silence about her alleged one-time sexual relationship with President Trump a decade earlier. It concerns the $130,000 paid to Stormy Daniels.
Judge Juan Melchan was scheduled to rule on the removal request by Trump’s lawyers as early as November 12. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office had opposed the request.
But in the wake of Trump’s election victory, prosecutors told Marchand they wanted to delay sentencing to give him time to determine how his victory affected the case.
Mr Marchand gave them one week to do so.
Former US President Donald Trump leaves court after a jury found him guilty of all 34 felonies during his criminal trial in New York State Supreme Court on May 30, 2024.
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Before the suspension order, Trump was scheduled to be sentenced on November 26th. If the case is not dismissed and Trump is sentenced, he is not expected to serve any prison time until more than four years after the president leaves the White House. now.
Two criminal cases against Trump in federal court are expected to be dismissed before or shortly after he enters the White House. President Trump has the power to order the attorney general to throw out these lawsuits. The Justice Department, led by the AG, also has a policy of not prosecuting sitting presidents.
In one of the cases, Trump is being charged in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on charges related to his efforts to reverse his loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
The judge did not consider the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s July ruling in the case until after President Trump’s election, when Special Counsel Jack Smith asked her to suspend all proceedings for the time being. was.
Mr. Smith also filed a temporary proceeding with the federal appeals court in Atlanta in an attempt to overturn Florida U.S. District Court Judge Eileen Cannon’s dismissal of charges against Mr. Trump related to the retention of classified government records after he left the White House. requested that it be stopped. The appeals court upheld the delay, which, as in Washington, was seen as a precursor to the Justice Department dropping the case altogether.
A fourth criminal case in Atlanta state court charges Trump and more than a dozen co-defendants in connection with trying to overturn Biden’s 2020 loss in Georgia. It is being said.
The trial court allowed Trump and some of the other defendants to remain in the case despite Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis having a romantic relationship with the senior prosecutor in charge of the matter. is appealing the decision.
On Monday, the Georgia Court of Appeals, without explanation, suspended oral arguments in Trump’s appeal scheduled for Dec. 5 until further notice.
