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(144,187 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2024, 03:40 AM Dec 14

Trump's lawyers rebuff DA's idea for upholding his hush money conviction, calling it 'absurd'

Source: AP

Updated 4:08 PM EST, December 13, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers urged a judge again Friday to throw out his hush money conviction, balking at the prosecution’s suggestion of preserving the verdict by treating the case the way some courts do when a defendant dies before sentencing. They called the idea “absurd.”

The Manhattan district attorney’s office is asking Judge Juan M. Merchan to “pretend as if one of the assassination attempts against President Trump had been successful,” Trump’s lawyers wrote in a blistering 23-page response.

In court papers made public Tuesday, District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office proposed an array of options for keeping the historic conviction on the books after Trump’s lawyers filed paperwork earlier this month asking for the case to be dismissed.

Those options include freezing the case until Trump leaves office in 2029, agreeing that any future sentence won’t include jail time, or closing the case by noting he was convicted but that he wasn’t sentenced and his appeal wasn’t resolved because of presidential immunity.

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Trump's lawyers rebuff DA's idea for upholding his hush money conviction, calling it 'absurd' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 14 OP

Trump was convicted prior to winning the election and he can still serve his time in prison in NY while he is President. cstanleytech Dec 14 #1

'Come on, that's not really serious': Legal expert blows off Trump lawyer's latest plea LetMyPeopleVote Dec 14 #2

Fine him - he can afford Retrograde Dec 14 #3

cstanleytech

(27,174 posts)

1. Trump was convicted prior to winning the election and he can still serve his time in prison in NY while he is President.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 04:02 AM

Dec 14

Just like there isn't anything in the Constitution prohibiting a convicted felon from running for President while in prison the Constitution doesn't provide for them to be let out of a State prison once they are sworn in.
So, he's welcome to serve as President while he serves as prisoner #xxx-xxxxx-xx-xxxxx

LetMyPeopleVote

(155,514 posts)

2. 'Come on, that's not really serious': Legal expert blows off Trump lawyer's latest plea

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 07:03 PM

Dec 14

I was also amused by this silly filing by trump.
https://bsky.app/profile/osagecomesbackhome.bsky.social/post/3ldc36ba6zs2g

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https://www.rawstory.com/trump-letitia-james-2670454178/

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show" on Saturday, a former Southern District of New York prosecutor all but rolled her eyes when asked a long-shot bid from one of Donald Trump's lawyers to get his client's civil fraud conviction tossed with a plea to New York Attorney General Letitia "Tish" James.

Speaking with Phang, herself also a former prosecutor, attorney Kristy Greenberg explained that there is no reason for the president-elect's civil trials to be dismissed in the same way his federal trials were dropped after he won re-election.....

As host Phang pointed out, Trump's attorneys have been making multiple appeals to get everything tossed, with no luck so far.

'Talk about Tish James and her response when she said 'Nah, we are not going to voluntarily dismiss this because it is civil case' and the law is legion when it comes to saying you can pursue civil remedies and civil actions against sitting presidents," host Phang prompted her guest.

Retrograde

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3. Fine him - he can afford

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 11:30 PM

Dec 14

$1000 or $10000 per count

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