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American President-elect Donald Trump, criminally convicted for hidden payments to a pornography star, has once again failed before the New York courts to postpone the pronouncement of his sentence. This is scheduled for Friday, ten days before his inauguration.
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January 8, 2025 – 00:13
(Keystone-ATS) The day after a refusal on Monday before Judge Juan Merchan, who must hand down the sentence, Donald Trump’s lawyers pleaded Tuesday, during a hearing at the New York Court of Appeal, for the procedure to be frozen , in yet another attempt to delay the deadline, indicates a court document.
According to the document, an appeals court judge rejected the request shortly after listening to their arguments, based primarily on presidential immunity.
Unless a new appeal is successful, Donald Trump’s sentence must therefore still be pronounced at a hearing on January 10 at 9:30 a.m. (3:30 p.m. in Switzerland). But Judge Merchan has already ruled out a prison sentence, “impossible to implement”, and has given the future tenant of the White House the opportunity to appear in person or virtually.
Three buried cases
Despite these adjustments, announced on Friday, Donald Trump’s lawyers have increased their appeals to prevent the hearing, which will have a strong symbolic value, from taking place.
After six weeks of trial in the middle of the electoral campaign, in an electric climate, Donald Trump on May 30 became the first former American president (2017-2021) to be convicted by the criminal justice system.
A jury of twelve citizens unanimously found him guilty of 34 counts of accounting falsification to hide from voters the payment of $130,000 to actress Stormy Daniels, with the aim of avoiding a sex scandal at all. end of his first victorious campaign in 2016 against Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump, who has denied any sexual relationship with the actress, has always denounced a political trial hatched by a court in the hands of his adversaries.
He managed to escape any trial in the three other cases in which he was charged, including the most serious in federal justice for his alleged illegal attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election lost against the current US president. Joe Biden.
