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on presidential immunity, the president-elect should be exempt from participating in any court proceedings relating to the case.
“Even if this Court did find that the disputed evidence constitutes official acts under the auspices of the Trump decision, which it does not, Defendant’s motion is still denied as introduction of the disputed evidence constitutes harmless error and no mode of proceedings error has taken place,” Merchan continued.in May of falsifying business records to conceal a hush money payment made him the first U.S. president to be found guilty of a felony crime.
Trump was originally scheduled to be sentenced for the hush money case in July. However, his sentencing date was pushed back due to the effect of the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling, which Trump’s legal team has cited when engaging in back-and-forth appeals with Merchan for months. in November when Merchan indefinitely postponed sentencing in the case to give both the president-elect and Bragg time to make arguments for and against dropping the case entirely.
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