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Right here is some background, courtesy of my colleague, Victoria Bekiempis, on why the choose in Donald Trump’s Manhattan prison hush-money case has postponed deciding on whether or not to throw out the president-elect’s conviction on presidential immunity grounds:
Choose Juan Merchan’s workplace instructed Trump’s attorneys and prosecutors that he would delay the ruling till 19 November after protection and prosecutors submitted letters asking for a postponement. Merchan’s choice was not made public till Tuesday – the day he was set to challenge his ruling on the immunity challenge…
Trump was initially scheduled to be sentenced on 10 July. Then got here the 1 July US supreme court docket ruling that granted sitting presidents broad immunity for official acts taken throughout their time in workplace.
Trump urged Merchan to delay his sentencing in mild of this ruling. His authorized workforce pushed to problem Trump’s conviction, citing the supreme court docket choice.
Merchan agreed to mull over the legalities and pushed again the continuing till 18 September “if such remains to be obligatory” given the supreme court docket choice. Trump’s attorneys in August requested for nonetheless extra time, saying that they would wish it to probably enchantment Merchan’s choice.
Merchan on 6 September delayed Trump’s sentencing but once more till 26 November – after the election – saying the scenario was “fraught with complexities”. He stated this choice was meant “to keep away from any look – nonetheless unwarranted – that the continuing has been affected by or seeks to have an effect on the approaching presidential election during which the defendant is a candidate”.
Prosecutors on 10 November despatched an e mail to Merchan indicating that Trump’s workforce had requested them to conform to a keep so there could be time to evaluation “a variety of arguments based mostly on the affect on this continuing from the outcomes of the presidential election; defendant’s forthcoming certification as president-elect on January 6, 2025; and his inauguration on January 20, 2025”…
They requested Merchan for time to “assess current developments” and to provide them till 19 November to advise him what they consider are “acceptable steps going ahead”. Prosecutors indicated that that they had spoken to Trump’s workforce about this and that they agreed to this request.
Replace anticipated in Trump hush-money case
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Donald Trump, 78, was convicted in Could of falsifying enterprise information to cowl up a $130,000 (£102,809) hush cash cost his former lawyer Michael Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels for her silence earlier than the 2016 election a couple of sexual encounter she says she had with Trump, who denies it.
The president-elect had been scheduled to be sentenced on 26 November, however justice Juan Merchan final week put all proceedings within the case on pause on the request of Manhattan district lawyer Alvin Bragg’s workplace.
The prosecutors had requested for extra time to think about subsequent steps within the case, citing the necessity to stability the “competing pursuits” between having the prison case go ahead as regular and defending the workplace of the president.
They’re as a result of suggest their subsequent steps later right this moment.
Trump’s win within the 2024 presidential election has thwarted his different prison instances, together with the federal election interference and labeled paperwork instances.
The state-level election case in Georgia is on pause pending enchantment within the wake of stories that the Fulton county district lawyer, Fani Willis, had employed a person with whom she had an affair as prosecutor.
You’ll be able to learn extra on the authorized battles Trump faces in this story.
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