US President-elect Donald Trump asked a Manhattan court judge to postpone sentencing scheduled for Friday in the Stormy Daniels case.
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Trump asked to postpone the sentencing scheduled for Friday, since the appeal comes on the same day he will be certified as the winner of the 2024 United States presidential election, according to CNN.
Trump appealed two rulings by Judge Juan Merchan that rejected his attempts to overturn his conviction.
Trump must “appear for sentencing, following his conviction, on January 10, 2025,” Manhattan Court Judge Juan Merchan ordered last Friday in a court document.
He clarified that he was not “inclined to impose a sentence of incarceration” on the former and future tenant of the White House, aged 78.
Donald Trump’s lawyers requested a response from the Manhattan court judge before 2 p.m. Monday.
They also mentioned that the sentencing hearing on Friday should be suspended, until “President Trump’s immunity appeals are fully and finally resolved, which should result in a dismissal of this case,” a Trump’s record said.
The Manhattan court jury found him guilty of 34 counts for hidden payments to a porn star, Stormy Daniels, made just before the November 2016 presidential election.
He is accused of “aggravated accounting falsification to conceal a plot aimed at perverting the 2016 election” which he won against Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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