President-elect Trump's sentencing for his criminal conviction is scheduled for Friday.
The highest court in New York said Thursday it would not prevent the sentencing of President-elect Donald Trump for his crimes, currently scheduled for Friday.A deputy clerk for Judge Jenny Rivera wrote in a two-sentence letter to Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, that the judge declined to intervene.Trump was convicted last year on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the so-called 'hush money' case.The incoming president has also sought an emergency reprieve from the U.S.
That payment was wired before his first presidency, but a unanimous jury concluded that Trump, while president, authorized a scheme to falsify the related records. Trump's lawyers have argued it was unconstitutional for the jury to be shown evidence and testimony from the years when Trump was in office.Trump's two-pronged effort comes after a lower-level New York appeals court on Tuesday rejected his latest effort to postpone his sentencing.
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