Kang submitted his opinion to the court after Trump’s election… “Oppose the overturning of the guilty verdict”
Trump’s “victory for the American people”… The judge hasn’t made a decision yet
The Associated Press and NBC News reported on the 19th (local time) that the prosecutor in charge of the ‘sexual scandal silencing’ case indicting U.S. President-elect Donald Trump submitted an opinion to the court agreeing to suspend the trial and postpone the sentencing. did it
According to reports, prosecutors from the Manhattan District Prosecutor’s Office, led by Chief Prosecutor Alvin Bragg, submitted an opinion containing this content to Judge Juan Mercan of the New York Criminal Court, the trial court.
However, prosecutors expressed their position that the guilty verdict against President-elect Trump handed down last May should not be overturned.
Ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, former President Trump paid $130,000 (approximately KRW 178.88 million) through his personal lawyer Michael Cohen to cover up a sexual scandal with adult actress Stormy Daniels in May of the same year, and then made false statements in the company’s books. He was accused of being listed as
The jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict on all 34 charges in May, leaving only the court to decide on the sentence.
However, the situation changed last July when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that actions taken by the president to run state affairs while in office cannot be punished. President-elect Trump’s team requested that the guilty verdict be dismissed because of that ruling.
Judge Merchan has not yet made a decision based on the prosecution’s opinion.
President-elect Trump was put on trial for a total of four criminal cases, including a sexual scandal silencing case, an attempt to overturn the presidential election results, a leak of confidential data, and a separate case of allegations of overturning the presidential election results indicted by prosecutors in Georgia.
The hush money case is the only one that went through a double trial and resulted in an actual guilty verdict.
Stephen Chung, a spokesman for the presidential campaign who was appointed as White House communications director, said of the prosecution’s position in a statement that day, “This is a complete and decisive victory for President-elect Trump and the American people who overwhelmingly elected him.”
(Seoul = Newsis)
Source: www.donga.com
