Former President Donald Trump is scheduled for sentencing in a New York criminal case related to hush money payments made during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Judge Juan Merchan is scheduled to sentence Trump Friday in New York . The judge in President-elect Donald Trump 's New York criminal hush money case indicated Friday that he intends to sentence Trump to an unconditional discharge. President-elect Donald Trump on Monday asked the judge overseeing his criminal prosecution in New York to halt a sentencing hearing set for Friday.
Merchan ordered Trump to appear for sentencing either in person or virtually January 10 following his May conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump's attorneys argued Merchan 'will lack authority to proceed with sentencing' because Trump is still appealing Merchan's earlier ruling that the Supreme Court's presidential immunity decision does not apply to the New York hush money case. 'Forcing a President to continue to defend a criminal case-potentially through trial or, even more dramatically here, through sentencing and judgment-while the appellate courts are still grappling with his claim of immunity would, in fact, force that President 'to answer for his conduct in court' before his claim of immunity is finally adjudicated,' defense attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove wrote. Merchan said he would sentence Trump to an unconditional discharge, effectively a blemish on Trump's record, saying it struck a balance between the duties of president and the sanctity of the jury's verdict. 'It is of no moment that the Court has suggested an intention to impose a sentence of unconditional discharge. While it is indisputable that the fabricated charges in this meritless case should have never been brought, and at this point could not possibly justify a sentence more onerous than that, no sentence at all is appropriate based on numerous legal errors-including legal errors directly relating to Presidential immunity that President Trump will address in the forthcoming appeals,' the defense said
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