A day after New York prosecutors said they will fight efforts to dismiss Donald Trump’s hush money conviction, the president-elect’s lawyers urged a judge to ignore them and dispose of the case before he takes office in January. Echoing their arguments since Trump’s win, his lawyers said in a letter Wednesday to Judge Juan M.
Former President Donald Trump , standing with defense attorney Todd Blanche, speaks at the conclusion of proceedings for the day at his trial at Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, May 14, 2024, in New York . Former President Donald Trump waits for the start of proceedings in Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in New York .
The lawyers, Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, said they will file paperwork formalizing their dismissal request and asked Merchan for a deadline of Dec. 20, after Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team is expected to disclose the next steps it intends to take in two federal cases against Trump. They warned of protracted appeals overlapping with Trump’s second term if what they deemed a “politically-motivated and fatally flawed” case isn’t dispatched urgently.Delta CEO says the Trump administration will reverse government ‘overreach’ seen under Biden“On November 5, 2024 the Nation’s People issued a mandate that supersedes the motivations of ‘People,’” Blanche and Bove wrote. “This case must immediately be dismissed.
D.A. Alvin Bragg’s office said in that Trump’s looming presidency isn’t grounds for dropping a case that was already decided by a jury.
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