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Trump’s N.Y. hush money sentencing may be postponed due to immunity ruling
Washington Post ^ | 07/02/24 | Shayna Jacobs

Posted on 07/02/2024 8:57:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s sentencing in his New York hush money case may be postponed from next week in light of Monday’s Supreme Court immunity ruling, with the Manhattan district attorney saying he is not opposed to a delay requested by Trump’s lawyers so they can seek to vacate his conviction.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office noted in a letter to the court Tuesday that sentencing would have to be delayed from July 11 for the defense to make its case about how the Supreme Court’s decision could affect Trump’s state court prosecution.

Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records was based in part on evidence of meetings and communications that occurred while he was president.

In a historic and far-reaching decision Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts, and that evidence cannot be used to prove alleged private criminal activity if that evidence is part of a president performing his official duties.

New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan has previously ruled that Trump’s conduct in the falsifying records case has nothing to do with his official duties as president, a decision Merchan made when rejecting a request by Trump’s lawyers to postpone the trial until after the Supreme Court’s ruling on immunity. The Supreme Court ruling was sparked by a different Trump criminal case, his federal election-interference trial in D.C. But it may impact his other cases as well.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hushmoney; postponement; sentencing; trump
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1 posted on 07/02/2024 8:57:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

manhattan da is not opposed to the motion

has bragg been told to back off?


2 posted on 07/02/2024 9:00:11 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: joshua c

Bragg is too busy letting murders and rapists out on no bail.


3 posted on 07/02/2024 9:01:58 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: SeekAndFind

Hmm...Merchan sentencing him before the convention or after the convention? Not sure which one is best...he can use it as an opportunity to kill momentum going into the convention, or kill momentum coming out of it...


4 posted on 07/02/2024 9:02:00 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: SeekAndFind

I thought this took place prior to the election. If so, immunity doesn’t carry.

I’m not saying he’s guilty, the whole trial is a sham.

I think they will may this as a convenient exit so they don’t lose on appeal. It’s an excuse.


5 posted on 07/02/2024 9:02:58 AM PDT by rey
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To: joshua c
The Kanga-judge may have been ordered to wait. This is very interesting.


6 posted on 07/02/2024 9:04:10 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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7 posted on 07/02/2024 9:05:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: rey
I thought this took place prior to the election. If so, immunity doesn’t carry.

The whole trial is a sham. I'm sick and tired of hearing "34 counts...". That is based on 34 installment payments, where checks were written out 34 times to cover the one large sum of "hush" money. So it isn't 34 things to convict him on, it's about one single thing.

And... the 34 payments were begun when Donald Trump was President in the White House, so the immunity does indeed carry because he was President when the so-called illegal payments began.

There should have been no conviction at all, innocent or guilty. And I believe Trump to be innocent, despite the 4-4-4 juror ruling (only a fraction of the juror pool convicted him). The trial was indeed a sham.

8 posted on 07/02/2024 9:12:19 AM PDT by roadcat ( )
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To: rey

I had read that they used conversations, texts from President Trump, that occurred while in office, as part of the evidence against him. Not a lawyer, but I think, if they showed the jury ANYTHING that is covered by the presumption of immunity that the case gets tossed, period. Other thoughts from more lawyerly people here?


9 posted on 07/02/2024 9:13:44 AM PDT by desertsolitaire (Perhaps the Great Ape Lawgiver in the series Planet of the Apes was correct in his view of humans?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes the “evidence” was all collected during his presidency, therefore, immune. Toss the conviction out. And Fanny Packed as well. All of these harassment suits are null and void.


10 posted on 07/02/2024 9:14:18 AM PDT by exnavy
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t see a connection between the two cases.

I think they are just running scared.


11 posted on 07/02/2024 9:16:54 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: joshua c

Puzzled, but Bragg’s motive may be to push sentencing/confinement/jail closer to election and early voting.


12 posted on 07/02/2024 9:19:01 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I thought I read that it could be postponed for up to 2 weeks.


13 posted on 07/02/2024 9:20:57 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Republican Wildcat

If the sentencing is delayed until after the convention, Trump won’t have to deliver his acceptance speech on zoom from Rikers.


14 posted on 07/02/2024 9:27:28 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Parley Baer

(I thought I read that it could be postponed for up to 2 weeks.)

You read right. Here’s the letter from Bragg’s prosecutors to Judge Merchan.

https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1808155661722587354/photo/1


15 posted on 07/02/2024 9:30:13 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two wen't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects Trump is being given the Alex Jones tr)
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To: SeekAndFind

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16 posted on 07/02/2024 9:30:42 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bragg et al reading the tea leaves. Their sham trial had the opposite desired effect they intended. Sentencing or jailing Trump will only further hurt their cause now and they’re hoping for a save face way out of it to minimize how much they look like the fools they really are. Can’t have the Orange Felon gaining even more voters.


17 posted on 07/02/2024 9:32:09 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: roadcat
They'll rule that "paying hush money to a ho is personal and not official".

I don't like it, but I'm pretty sure that's how it'll shake out.

18 posted on 07/02/2024 9:35:31 AM PDT by knarf (BEC)
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To: SeekAndFind

They want different timing for the sentencing.


19 posted on 07/02/2024 9:37:15 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Pointing out hypocrisy is meaningless to the Left; they don't have principles, they have goals. )
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To: rey

I agree. I don’t get it


20 posted on 07/02/2024 9:37:26 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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