Donald Trump's New York state criminal case, involving hush money payments, is moving to the appellate stage. Trump, who was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, has hired new lawyers from Sullivan & Cromwell with significant appellate experience. The case may eventually reach the Supreme Court, which previously declined to block Trump's sentencing but left open the possibility of reviewing his conviction.
Donald Trump ’s federal criminal cases are dead and his state criminal case in Georgia might be dead, though Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is trying to revive it. But there’s impending action in his New York state criminal case, which the president is appealing while he runs the country. Trump had to get new lawyers to represent him in the so-called hush money case, because he tapped much of his defense team for high-ranking Justice Department posts.
The guilty verdicts did not require incarceration under state law, though relatively brief incarceration or probation are other sentencing options for that crime. Trump pleaded not guilty in all four of his criminal cases; the New York case is the only one that went to trial before the election. The Supreme Court declined to block Trump’s Jan. 10 sentencing before he took office, but while doing so the court left open the possibility of eventually ruling on his behalf.
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