Judge denies Trump's plea to delay Friday's sentencing on his hush money conviction
Source: CNN
This Friday sentencing for his hush money conviction, the judge said in a filing Monday.
Trump’s lawyers are likely to appeal Merchan’s decision to a New York appeals court.
Earlier Monday, Trump’s lawyers filed an appeal urging a New York appellate court to overturn Merchan’s two recent rulings that upheld his conviction in the hush money case, while separately urging the judge to postpone Trump’s sentencing while he appeals.
Trump’s legal maneuvers come on the same day that he was certified as the winner of the 2024 presidential election – and four years since he tried to overturn his election loss and his supporters rioted at the US Capitol.....
The Manhattan district attorney’s office urged Merchan to deny Trump’s request to postpone his sentencing, according to a filing sent to the judge.
“Defendant will suffer no prejudice from the conclusion of criminal proceedings in the trial court given the Court’s intended sentence of an unconditional discharge and defendant’s decision to appear for sentencing virtually instead of in person—indeed, entry of judgment is necessary to allow the appeal defendant has repeatedly stated he will pursue,” prosecutors wrote in the filing.
“And the current schedule is entirely a function of defendant’s repeated requests to adjourn a sentencing date that was originally set for July 11, 2024; he should not now be heard to complain of harm from delays he caused,” prosecutors added.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/06/politics/trump-delay-hush-money-sentencing
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Walleye
(39,289 posts)Irish_Dem
(67,318 posts)Can't he stand up like a gd man and take his medicine.
Do the right thing for once in his damn life.
LetMyPeopleVote
(160,968 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(121,043 posts)Time to be a man and accept responsibility for your errors.
JoseBalow
(7,124 posts)He deliberately and knowingly did what he got convicted for, and clearly does not regret it. Just sayin'.
SARose
(1,300 posts)That is all.🤣
BumRushDaShow
(150,127 posts)Hate to keep rushing through time to get to these deadlines (only to get the Lucy/football treatment). I hope hope hope it will really happen and then we can move on even with the appeals (which at least in NY, I doubt they would budge).
This was originally supposed to happen over the summer!
LetMyPeopleVote
(160,968 posts)Timewas
(2,401 posts)Is a fiasco and makes a mockery of our supposed "equal" justice system.
DallasNE
(7,738 posts)Lacks standing to sentence Trump until his appeal is heard.But there is nothing to appeal until a sentence has been issued. Trump then claims this needs to be moved to Federal court to rule on immunity on State charges because the hush money payments were official acts even though they were commented prior to his being sworn in as President. Ugh