Posted on 06/09/2024 3:32:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In a typical case, a convict will be given the opportunity to accept responsibility and present mitigating factors that could reduce any sentence. That is going to be difficult for a man who has constantly railed against the case against him. | Alex Kent for POLITICO
Will Donald Trump avoid prison? It may depend partly on his ability to convince a probation officer that he would be “amenable to supervision.”
That’s according to Martin Horn, a former commissioner of both the New York City Department of Probation and the city’s Department of Correction, who spoke to POLITICO Magazine about the process Trump is about to undergo as he tries to stay out of the slammer.
In a typical case, a convict will be interviewed by a probation officer in the days after the verdict and be given the opportunity to accept responsibility and present mitigating factors that could reduce any sentence. That is going to be difficult for a man who has constantly railed against the case against him — not to mention the very judge who will decide the sentence.
Horn, who is a professor emeritus at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said a probation officer will have to answer: “Is this individual going to accept that he has been justly convicted and accept the strictures and restrictions and requirements of a probation sentence?”
That will be one of several key factors for Justice Juan Merchan to weigh before he announces his sentence for the former president-turned-convicted felon on July 11.
Here’s how it all might play out for Trump.
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Do you remember what Hillary said in 16....If he wins, he’ll hang us all. She meant that and the deep state was able to take advantage of Trumps ignorance of the gov deep state and corruption and keep Trump from getting to them. Not this time and they know it. If Trump wins, Hillary’s words will come true this time and they know it.
They didn’t do all this just to call him a felon. They MUST keep him from winning the election.
Good thinking.
So true a low level bureaucrat determines the potential fate of a world leader.
Meanwhile sleaze bags like the Clinton’s walk free , enriched by by their money grabbing foundation and another incompetent like Biden rakes in $$$ through his convoluted scheme involving his family
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