A judge has set Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush money case for January 10th, just over a week before his inauguration. While Trump was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records, the judge indicated he is inclined to issue an unconditional discharge, avoiding any jail time.
The president-elect can appear in-person or virtually and the judge says he is inclined not to order incarceration of Trump and will likely issue an"unconditional discharge"In an extraordinary turn, a judge Friday set President-elect Donald Trump 's sentencing in his hush money case for Jan. 10 — little over a week before he's due to return to the White House — but indicated he wouldn't be jailed.Judge Juan M.
Trump was convicted in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records. They involved an alleged scheme to hide a hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels in the last weeks of Trump’s first campaign in 2016. The payout was made to keep her from publicizing claims she’d had sex with the married Trump years earlier. He says that her story is false and that he did nothing wrong.
They suggested various options, such as freezing the case during his term or guaranteeing him a no-jail sentence. They also proposed closing the case while formally noting both his conviction and his undecided appeal — a novel idea drawn from what some state courts do when criminal defendants die while appealing their cases.
His conviction left the 78-year-old facing the possibility of punishment ranging from a fine or probation to up to four years in prison. Prosecutors said the designation was meant to cloak the true purpose of the payments and help cover up a broader effort to keep voters from hearing unflattering claims about the Republican during his first campaign.
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