In this courtroom sketch, former President Donald Trump appears before Judge Juan Merchan via video conference from Manhattan State Court, New York, where he is accused of falsifying business records and concealing a 2016 sex scandal involving a porn star. Stormy Daniels paid to keep quiet.
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Prosecutors will tell a judge on Tuesday whether they believe the culprit hush money Cases against the president-elect Donald Trump Should receive sentencing as planned, or be fired following an election victory as his lawyers demand.
this New York Case is one of four criminal prosecution Trump’s fate hangs in the balance – or is almost certain – since Republicans defeated the vice president in the election two weeks ago Kamala Harris
Trump is convicted May in Manhattan Supreme Court 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
The records relate to a $130,000 payment from his then-personal attorney, Michael Cohen, shortly before the 2016 porn star election Stormi Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged one-time tryst with Trump a decade ago.
Judge Juan Merchant is expected to rule on Trump’s lawyers’ request to dismiss as early as November 12. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office opposed the request.
But after Trump won the election, the district attorney’s office told Merchants they wanted him to delay the ruling to give them time to determine how the victory would affect the case.
Merchant gave them a week to complete the work.
On May 30, 2024, during the criminal trial of former US President Donald Trump in the New York State Supreme Court, the jury found him guilty of all 34 felonies and then left the court.
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Before the stay was ordered, Trump was scheduled to be sentenced on November 26.
Two criminal cases against Trump in federal court are expected to be dismissed before or soon after he enters the White House. Trump has the power to order his attorney general to dismiss the cases. The Justice Department, led by the attorney general, also has a policy of not prosecuting sitting presidents.
In one of the cases, Trump was charged in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., with crimes related to his attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss to the president Joe Biden.
The judge there is considering the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s July ruling in the case, after special counsel Jack Smith asked her to temporarily suspend all proceedings in the wake of Trump’s election.
Smith also asked a federal appeals court in Atlanta to halt proceedings in an attempt to overturn a charge dismissed by Florida U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon accusing Trump of withholding classified government records after leaving the White House. The appeals court granted the delay, which, like the delay in Washington, was seen as a precursor to the Justice Department abandoning the case altogether.
In a fourth criminal case in state court in Atlanta, Trump and more than a dozen co-defendants have been charged with crimes stemming from their attempts to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss to Biden in Georgia.
Trump and some of the other defendants are appealing a trial court’s decision to allow Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to proceed with the case even though she and a top prosecutor she assigned to the case Guan had a romantic relationship.
on Monday, Georgia Court of AppealsWithout explanation, oral arguments were canceled until further notice of Trump’s scheduled appeal on December 5.
