In this courtroom sketch, former U.S. President Donald Trump appears before Judge Juan Merchan via video conference from a state court in Manhattan, New Jersey, where he is accused of falsifying business records to conceal a 2016 payment for porn star Si Stormy Daniels paid for his silence.
Jane Rosenberg | Reuters
A New York judge on Tuesday delayed for a week a ruling on whether to confer the president-elect Donald TrumpIt requested that his guilty verdict in the criminal hush money case be revoked or that the original verdict be upheld and that he be sentenced at the end of November.
The delay came two days after the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office asked the judge for time to consider how Trump’s election victory would affect the case.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, who was originally scheduled to issue a ruling on Tuesday, is now scheduled to decide on November 19 whether to dismiss the case.
Trump is currently scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 26 on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to his former lawyer Michael Cohen’s allegations about porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 presidential election. Regarding the hush money paid by Stormy Daniels.
Trump’s lawyers asked in July to dismiss the case and set aside the jury’s verdict, following a Supreme Court ruling that significantly expanded the scope of presidential immunity.
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