US President-elect Donald Trump, convicted criminally in New York in the spring for hidden payments to a porn star, has appealed the pronouncement of his sentence, scheduled for Friday, ten days before his inauguration, according to an appeal made public Monday.
Yet another legal maneuver, the lawyers of the man who will be the 47th President of the United States on January 20 are demanding an “automatic suspension” of the procedure, which provides, under an order of January 3 from a judge of the criminal court of Manhattan, a hearing on January 10 at 9:30 a.m. (1:30 p.m. GMT) so that Trump knows his “sentence”. It must be pronounced just ten days before his inauguration in Washington, even if the Republican, elected on November 5, will not go to prison.
“The court should cancel the sentencing hearing scheduled for January 10, 2025, and suspend all deadlines in this case until appeals based on President Trump’s immunity have been completely and finally exhausted, and that the case is ultimately abandoned,” write lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove in an appeal dated Sunday. These should be the next numbers two and three in the Department of Justice.
New York judge Juan Merchan, who presided over the “Stormy Daniels” trial in the spring, and pronounced the criminal conviction on May 30, has until Monday 2:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. GMT) to give his response, instruct Mes Blanche and Bove . Failing which, they will “examine any emergency appeal”.
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 criminally convicted.
The Manhattan jury found him guilty of 34 counts for hidden payments of $130,000 to a porn star, Stormy Daniels, made just before the November 2016 presidential election. are accused, but “aggravated accounting falsification to conceal a plot to pervert the 2016 election”, won against Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Trump and his entourage have repeatedly denounced a “masquerade”, a “witch hunt” orchestrated according to them by the local justice system in New York State and the Democratic administration of President Joe Biden.
Donald Trump failed to overturn this historic verdict on the basis of presidential immunity, a constitutional principle that the United States Supreme Court had largely expanded on July 1, to Trump’s advantage.
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