The New York Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s motion to postpone the sentencing hearing in the criminal case of the hush money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels, reports the CNN. The U.S. president-elect’s last chance is if the U.S. Supreme Court grants the request and postpones it indefinitely so that a judge can decide his fate.
Donald Trump’s lawyers were notified in a two-sentence letter Thursday by the New York Court of Appeals that Judge Jenny Rivera had denied the president-elect’s request. CNN reminds us that there is nothing limiting the US Supreme Court from overturning this decision and preventing State Judge Juan Merchan from imposing a sentence on Trump. On the other hand, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg explained in his submission submitted on Thursday that the Supreme Court’s decision on immunity cannot be applied to this evening in 2016, even before Trump’s first term as president. According to him, presidential immunity is strictly limited to the president’s term of office.
At the end of May 2024, the 12-member jury in New York found Donald Trump guilty of all 34 charges brought against him. The lawsuit was about how Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid $130,000 to porn actress Stormy Daniels at the end of October 2016, days before the presidential election. Based on the data so far, the “hush money” served to prevent Daniels from disclosing her alleged relationship with Trump ten years earlier. The former US president has consistently denied that they had a sexual relationship.
Donald Trump has officially initiated the indefinite postponement of the sentencing in the case of the hush money given to the porn actress
If Friday’s sentencing is held, the judge has already indicated in his previous statement that he does not expect the future president to appear in person, as well as his intention that he does not plan to impose a prison sentence, and that his sentence may be full release, which in practice means that it does not impose a penalty. However, CNN commented that the fact itself, the conviction of a former and soon-to-be president would be symbolic, historic and unprecedented in the history of the United States.
Donald Trump was declared guilty in the case of the hush money given to the porn actress The judge postponed the announcement of Donald Trump’s sentence until after the presidential election in the case of the hush money given to the porn actress The former US president was given limited immunity from criminal law, Donald Trump may escape impeachment
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