I don’t think they will be permitted to go THAT far. Merchan may well ORDER Trump to prison, but I believe that would trigger a whole nother cascade of hurtin’ on the DS. The Military cannot take the risk of having DJT in prison and exposed to arkancide by any number of political enemies’ hatchet men. The Military would sweep in and rescue Trump and reinstate him as POTUS. Concurrent with that would come the Emergency Broadcast explaining the steal of the 2020 election, the round-up of every guilty participant of the steal and the coup and corrupt installation of Bidumb as a corrupt (P)resident, and their prosecution and dispatching at Gitmo. It would be the end of the ‘Rat Party for all intents and purposes. That, briefly, is what I’d foresee.
Only in a society firmly committed to justice.