NEW YORK: Donald Trump‘s attorneys on Monday requested the New York choose who presided over his hush cash trial to put aside his conviction and delay his sentencing, scheduled for subsequent week.
The letter to Decide Juan M. Merchan cited the US Supreme Courtroom’s ruling earlier Monday and requested the choose to delay Trump’s sentencing whereas he weighs the excessive courtroom’s choice and the way it might affect the New York case, in response to the letter obtained by The Related Press.
The attorneys argue that the Supreme Courtroom’s choice confirmed a place the protection raised earlier within the case that prosecutors ought to have been precluded from introducing some proof they stated constituted official presidential acts, in response to the letter.
In prior courtroom filings, Trump contended he’s immune from prosecution for conduct alleged to contain official acts throughout his tenure in workplace. His attorneys didn’t increase that as a protection within the hush cash case, however they argued that some proof – together with Trump’s social media posts about former lawyer Michael Cohen – comes from his time as president and will have been excluded from the trial due to immunity protections.
The Manhattan district lawyer’s workplace declined remark Monday evening.
The Supreme Courtroom on Monday dominated for the primary time that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, extending the delay within the Washington felony case in opposition to Trump on fees he plotted to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss.
Trump was convicted in New York of 34 counts of falsifying enterprise data, arising from what prosecutors stated was an try to cowl up a hush cash fee simply earlier than the 2016 presidential election. He’s scheduled to be sentenced within the hush cash case on July 11.
Merchan instituted a coverage within the run-up to the trial requiring each side to ship him a one-page letter summarizing their arguments earlier than making longer courtroom filings. He stated he did that to raised handle the docket, so he was not inundated with voluminous paperwork.
In denying Trump’s bid to maneuver the trial from New York state courtroom to federal courtroom final 12 months, a federal choose discovered that the allegations on the heart of the case pertained to Trump’s private life, and don’t “replicate in any approach the colour of the President’s official duties.”
“The proof overwhelmingly means that the matter was a purely a private merchandise of the President – a cover-up of an embarrassing occasion,” US District Decide Alvin Ok. Hellerstein wrote within the ruling.
The letter to Decide Juan M. Merchan cited the US Supreme Courtroom’s ruling earlier Monday and requested the choose to delay Trump’s sentencing whereas he weighs the excessive courtroom’s choice and the way it might affect the New York case, in response to the letter obtained by The Related Press.
The attorneys argue that the Supreme Courtroom’s choice confirmed a place the protection raised earlier within the case that prosecutors ought to have been precluded from introducing some proof they stated constituted official presidential acts, in response to the letter.
In prior courtroom filings, Trump contended he’s immune from prosecution for conduct alleged to contain official acts throughout his tenure in workplace. His attorneys didn’t increase that as a protection within the hush cash case, however they argued that some proof – together with Trump’s social media posts about former lawyer Michael Cohen – comes from his time as president and will have been excluded from the trial due to immunity protections.
The Manhattan district lawyer’s workplace declined remark Monday evening.
The Supreme Courtroom on Monday dominated for the primary time that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, extending the delay within the Washington felony case in opposition to Trump on fees he plotted to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss.
Trump was convicted in New York of 34 counts of falsifying enterprise data, arising from what prosecutors stated was an try to cowl up a hush cash fee simply earlier than the 2016 presidential election. He’s scheduled to be sentenced within the hush cash case on July 11.
Merchan instituted a coverage within the run-up to the trial requiring each side to ship him a one-page letter summarizing their arguments earlier than making longer courtroom filings. He stated he did that to raised handle the docket, so he was not inundated with voluminous paperwork.
In denying Trump’s bid to maneuver the trial from New York state courtroom to federal courtroom final 12 months, a federal choose discovered that the allegations on the heart of the case pertained to Trump’s private life, and don’t “replicate in any approach the colour of the President’s official duties.”
“The proof overwhelmingly means that the matter was a purely a private merchandise of the President – a cover-up of an embarrassing occasion,” US District Decide Alvin Ok. Hellerstein wrote within the ruling.
