Although the Manhattan District Attorney says he agrees to postpone Trump’s sentencing, he suggests that the sentence should not be thrown out so that the case is not “closed”
Agreed to postpone his sentencing Donald Trump on the case of Stormy Daniels said the Manhattan attorney general.
In a letter to Judge Juan Mercan, the DA’s office also acknowledged that Trump is not likely to be sentenced “until the end of his upcoming presidency,” but stressed that Trump’s felony conviction should still stand. applies.
According to legal sources in the US, the developments in her case Stormy Daniels constitute an unprecedented upheaval. A year ago, the president-elect was facing four different charges. Now, as he prepares to return to the White House, his lawyers are “pushing” all the cases pending after the end of his 4-year term.
Already, the two federal cases are close to… closure. In Georgia, the case has gone dormant, while in New York it is poised to end without a sentence.
Trump was convicted in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records for payments made through his then-lawyer Michael Cohen to porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump wanted to buy Stormy Daniels’ silence about the relationship the two had before the 2016 election.
Although his prosecutor Manhattan says he agrees to delay Trump’s sentencing, suggests not tossing out sentence to keep case open.
“No existing law provides that the president’s temporary immunity from prosecution requires the dismissal of a post-trial criminal proceeding initiated at a time when the defendant lacked immunity from criminal prosecution and based on official conduct for which the defendant also lacked immunity.” , the prosecutor’s office wrote in the letter.
Source :Skai
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