President-elect Donald Trump will be sentenced Friday in the business records case in which a Manhattan jury found him guilty of falsifying business records
BREITBART | Published January 10, 2025
President-elect Donald Trump will be sentenced Friday in the business records case in which a Manhattan jury found him guilty of falsifying business records.
New York County Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan has confirmed sentencing for Trump – which he is expected to attend virtually.
As Breitbart News reported, Trump had made an eleventh-hour plea for a suspension of the criminal proceedings to the nation’s highest court after a New York State appeals court dismissed his effort to have the hearing delayed, and the state’s top court declined to act on the request.
But the Supreme Court ruled the sentencing could proceed.
AFP reports prosecutors opposed the effort to stave off sentencing, 10 days before Trump is due to be sworn in for a second term, arguing it was wrong for the apex court to hear the case when the 78-year-0ld still had avenues of appeal to pursue in New York.
“This Court lacks jurisdiction over a state court’s management of an ongoing criminal trial when defendant has not exhausted his state-law remedies,” the prosecution told the Supreme Court.
Trump’s attorneys called the case politically motivated, and they said sentencing would be a “grave injustice” that threatens to disrupt the presidential transition as the Republican prepares to return to the White House.
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SOURCE: www.breitbart.com
RELATED: Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Bid to Delay Sentencing in His N.Y. Case
BREITBART | Published January 10, 2025
A divided Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to delay his sentencing in his case in New York.
The court’s order clears the way for Judge Juan M. Merchan to impose a sentence Friday on Trump, who was convicted in what prosecutors called an attempt to cover up a $130,000 payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels to buy her silence over an alleged encounter from years earlier. Trump has denied any liaison with Daniels or any wrongdoing.
Merchan has said he will not give Trump jail time, fines or probation.
But Trump’s attorneys have argued that evidence used in the Manhattan trial violated last summer’s Supreme Court ruling giving Trump broad immunity from prosecution over acts he took as president.
At the least, they have said, the sentencing should be delayed while their appeals play out to avoid distracting Trump during the presidential transition.
Prosecutors pushed back, saying there’s no reason for the court to take the “extraordinary step” of intervening in a state case now. Trump’s attorneys haven’t shown that an hourlong virtual hearing would be a serious disruption, and a pause would likely mean pushing the case past the Jan. 20 inauguration, creating a yearslong delay in sentencing if it happens at all.
Trump’s attorneys went to the justices after New York courts refused to postpone sentencing, including the state’s highest court on Thursday.
Judges in New York have found that the convictions on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to personal matters rather than Trump’s official acts as president. Daniels says she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006. He denies it.
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SOURCE: www.newsmax.com
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