Manhattan DA agrees to postpone Donald Trump맥스카지노�s sentencing in hush money case
The Manhattan district attorney맥스카지노�s office said Tuesday it would agree to postpone Donald Trump맥스카지노�s sentencing in his hush money case to give prosecutors time to litigate the president-elect맥스카지노�s expected motion to dismiss the case.
In , the district attorney맥스카지노�s office also acknowledged that Trump is not likely to be sentenced 맥스카지노�until after the end of Defendant맥스카지노�s upcoming presidential term.맥스카지노� But the DA says Trump맥스카지노�s felony conviction should stand.
The developments cap a historic and unprecedented turnaround for Trump맥스카지노�s legal and political fate. One year ago, Trump was facing four separate indictments. Now, as he prepares to retake the White House, the strategy of Trump맥스카지노�s lawyers to try to push all of his cases beyond the 2024 election has proved wildly successful, with the two federal cases about to be wound down, the Georgia state case long dormant and the New York case poised to end indefinitely without a sentence.
Trump was convicted in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records over payments made to his then-lawyer Michael Cohen to reimburse a $130,000 hush money payment made to adult-film star Stormy Daniels to keep her from speaking out about an alleged affair before the 2016 election. (Trump has denied the affair.)
In the letter to Merchan, the Manhattan district attorney argued the judge should not dismiss Trump맥스카지노�s conviction.
맥스카지노�No current law establishes that a president맥스카지노�s temporary immunity from prosecution requires dismissal of a post-trial criminal proceeding that was initiated at a time when the defendant was not immune from criminal prosecution and that is based on official conduct for which the defendant is also not immune,맥스카지노� the district attorney맥스카지노�s office wrote.
In a statement, Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung called the filing 맥스카지노�a total and definitive victory for President Trump.맥스카지노�
Merchan had been set to rule last week on whether to overturn the conviction based on this summer맥스카지노�s U.S. Supreme Court decision that Trump should receive broad immunity for official acts during his time in office and that official acts can맥스카지노�t be used as evidence in a criminal trial.
But the district attorney맥스카지노�s office acknowledged the 맥스카지노�unprecedented circumstances맥스카지노� of Trump맥스카지노�s election as president, and Merchan맥스카지노�s ruling was postponed.
Trump맥스카지노�s lawyers have argued the conviction should be tossed both because of the presidential immunity decision and because he맥스카지노�s about to return to the White House.
맥스카지노�The stay, and dismissal, are necessary to avoid unconstitutional impediments to President Trump맥스카지노�s ability to govern,맥스카지노� Trump attorney Emil Bove wrote in emails exchanged with the court and the district attorney맥스카지노�s office this month. Trump has picked Bove to fill a high-ranking Justice Department spot in his new administration.
Elie Honig, a CNN senior legal analyst and former prosecutor, said Tuesday that the postponement of Trump맥스카지노�s sentencing was an inevitable outcome of his election.
맥스카지노�The clock ran out,맥스카지노� Honig said. 맥스카지노�We like to say no person is above the law in this country, but the fact is one person largely is, and that맥스카지노�s the president, because of the immunity ruling and because of the DOJ policy맥스카지노� that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted.
맥스카지노�That맥스카지노�s just sort of the cold, hard reality of the way our system works,맥스카지노� he added.
Sentencing was delayed twice before election
Trump was indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg last spring, the first of four indictments he would face in 2023.
It would ultimately be the only case against Trump to go to trial: The federal election subversion case was delayed indefinitely by the Supreme Court맥스카지노�s immunity ruling; a Trump-appointed federal judge dismissed the classified documents case; and the Georgia case has languished amid a push from Trump and his co-defendants to have the Fulton County district attorney removed from the case.
A Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts after a two-month trial.
But Trump맥스카지노�s sentencing, originally scheduled for July, was delayed twice after the Supreme Court맥스카지노�s immunity decision prompted Trump맥스카지노�s lawyers to file a motion to vacate the conviction. That effort, along with other tactics, including seeking to move the case into federal court, further delayed the proceedings and prompted Merchan to push the sentencing decision and a ruling on immunity until after the November election.
Trump맥스카지노�s lawyers have argued the conviction should be tossed because the district attorney맥스카지노�s office relied on evidence related to Trump맥스카지노�s official acts as president during his first term, which should not have been presented to the jury at trial.
Bragg맥스카지노�s office has said Trump맥스카지노�s conviction should stand and that the evidence presented at trial was 맥스카지노�overwhelming.맥스카지노�
