{"id":2367366,"date":"2024-11-11T15:13:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T20:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-judge-to-decide-fate-of-trump-sentencing-in-hush-money-case\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T15:14:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T20:14:31","slug":"new-york-judge-to-decide-fate-of-trump-sentencing-in-hush-money-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-judge-to-decide-fate-of-trump-sentencing-in-hush-money-case\/","title":{"rendered":"New York judge to decide fate of Trump sentencing in hush money case"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-judge-to-decide-fate-of-trump-sentencing-in-hush-money-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2367366&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former\u2064 President Donald Trump faces potential jail time\u2062 or fines following a\u200c conviction\u200d in \u200da New \u200cYork\u2064 criminal case involving hush money payments \u2064to \u2062a porn star. A Manhattan jury found him guilty of\u2062 falsifying business records in a \u200d34-count \u200dindictment. The fate of his sentencing rests with New York Supreme Court \u200dJustice Juan Merchan, who is \u2062set to decide whether to\u2063 uphold the conviction or possibly \u2063dismiss\u2062 the case altogether. Legal experts suggest\u200b that while the\u200c conviction \u200ccould lead to \u2064up to\u2062 four years in \u200bprison, a more likely outcome might be a fine or probation.<\/p>\n<p>Trump \u200bcontends the charges \u2063are politically motivated \u200band has appealed to \u200ca Supreme \u2063Court ruling that provides some immunity to former presidents regarding \u200bcriminal acts performed while in\u2064 office. As he prepares for his upcoming inauguration, there is speculation about whether sentencing \u200cwill occur before or after the\u2062 event. Additionally, \u2062Trump faces \u200btwo federal cases \u2063led by special counsel Jack Smith and unresolved state-level\u200b charges in Georgia related \u200dto the 2020 election. If the judge rules in \u200dTrump&#8217;s favor, it could significantly impact his campaign efforts as he seeks reelection while contending with these legal challenges.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump still faces jail or fine: Fate of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-big-problem-with-the-stormy-daniels-hush-money-case-against-trump\/\" title=\"The Big Problem With The Stormy Daniels Hush Money Case Against Trump\">hush money case<\/a> to be decided by NY judge<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1878989\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> was elected last week to be the 47th president of the United States, but he continues to face the prospect of punishment after a jury in the New York borough of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/manhattan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Manhattan<\/a> found him guilty in a 34-count criminal case earlier this year, with the possibilities ranging from prison time to having the case dismissed altogether.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York<\/a> Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan is poised to decide Tuesday whether to overturn the president-elect&rsquo;s conviction, which stems from a jury finding him guilty of falsifying business records to conceal a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-rejects-trump-bid-to-shield-financial-records\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid To Shield Financial Records\">hush money payment<\/a> to a porn star. Trump fought the allegations in New York state court but was found guilty by a 12-member jury.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Donald Trump speaks to reporters alongside his attorney Todd Blanche (right) during his trial at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on May 20, 2024. (Dave Sanders\/The New York Times via AP, Pool)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Legal experts have said the punishment for this conviction could result in up to four years in jail in addition to financial penalties. But given Trump&rsquo;s return to the White House in under 80 days and his preparations to lead the country over the next four years, experts say Trump may expect only a fine, if not a complete dismissal of the case, before his scheduled Nov. 26 sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>The sentencing was supposed to take place in September before Merchan postponed it in light of defense attorneys citing a July 1 Supreme Court decision that granted former presidents some immunity from official acts. While the high court&rsquo;s decision mainly applied to Trump&rsquo;s two separate federal cases, defense attorneys nevertheless said it should extend to the hush money case.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz told the <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>that &ldquo;it&rsquo;s certainly possible the sentencing will not happen.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It should not happen,&rdquo; said Dershowitz, a veteran appellate lawyer who has handled hundreds of high-level celebrity cases, including serving as Trump&rsquo;s counsel during his first impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t understand the case against Trump in New York. If I had a class in criminal law, and they asked me to describe the conviction against Donald Trump, I couldn&rsquo;t do it. And so if you can&rsquo;t even describe it or understand it, this is just no crime here. I think the only real impact of the New York cases, it probably contributed slightly to Trump&rsquo;s election,&rdquo; Dershowitz said.<\/p>\n<p>Merchan delayed sentencing until after the Tuesday election to consider the immunity decision and to determine if sentencing should proceed, &ldquo;if necessary.&rdquo; If sentencing is a go, Merchan is weighing whether Trump should return to court at the end of this month or if sentencing should be postponed until after his Jan. 20 inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3030301\/supreme-court-finds-some-immunity-for-presidents-complicating-trump-indictment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Trump v. United States\">Trump v. United States<\/a><\/em>  found former presidents enjoy some level of immunity from criminal prosecutions for official acts. The ruling derived from an appeal in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-alito-recusal-calls-are-a-coordinated-left-wing-campaign-like-clockwork\/\" title=\"Calls for Justice Alito&#039;s recusal are part of a &#039;coordinated&#039; left-wing campaign, happening &#039;like clockwork\">2020 election subversion case brought<\/a> by federal prosecutors, but Trump has sought to use it as a precedent for the dismissal of the hush money case in New York state court.<\/p>\n<p>If Merchan gave a favorable ruling for Trump, either by overturning his conviction based on the Supreme Court ruling or by delaying sentencing, it would remove one of the four criminal cases that have hung like a cloud over him as he pursued his bid for reelection.<\/p>\n<p>While legal experts suggest a full prison term is highly unlikely, Trump could face penalties including fines or probation. Some anticipate a fine if sentencing occurs before the inauguration, though the timing remains uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/justice-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Justice Department<\/a> is reviewing how to handle two federal cases against Trump led by special counsel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jack-smith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jack Smith<\/a>, in line with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3224012\/jack-smith-asks-judge-vacate-deadlines-trump-2020-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">long-standing policy not to prosecute sitting presidents<\/a>. State-level charges in Georgia related to alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election remain unresolved.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who is 78, pleaded not guilty in all four cases, describing them as politically motivated efforts to obstruct his campaign. He would be 82 by the time he finishes his second term as president, and some experts have even indicated that Trump&rsquo;s age and a lack of a criminal record could be factors in determining a punishment after a New York jury found him guilty in May.<\/p>\n<p>The jury found him guilty&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3018093\/trump-guilty-in-manhattan-hush-money-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on all 34 felony counts he was charged<\/a>&nbsp;with in connection to falsifying business records to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">conceal hush money payments made<\/a> to porn star Stormy Daniels in the final days of his 2016 campaign, making him the first ex-president in America to become a convicted felon. Trump has denied allegations of an affair with Daniels and decried the case by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg as a &ldquo;witch hunt.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump spokesman Steve Cheung said last Friday that the sentencing should not stand, saying: &ldquo;It is now abundantly clear that Americans want an immediate end to the weaponization of our justice system, so we can, as President Trump said in his historic victory speech, unify our country and work together for the betterment of our nation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The president-elect&rsquo;s lawyers argue the Manhattan case should be dismissed because the July Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity bars evidence of official acts in trials focused on personal conduct. The defense team contends that the jury saw evidence, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-captures-three-jan-6-fugitives-on-third-anniversary-of-capitol-riot\/\" title=\"FBI captures three Jan. 6 fugitives on third anniversary of Capitol riot\">including social media posts<\/a> and former aides&rsquo; testimony, linked to his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>However, prosecutors from Bragg&rsquo;s office argue that Trump&rsquo;s actions were personal and not protected by presidential immunity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1878989\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1878989\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s fate in hush money case rests with NY judge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2633,"featured_media":2367367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trump-jail.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[22021,33211,32120,12447,3634],"class_list":["post-2367366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-hush-money","tag-legal-news","tag-new-york","tag-sentencing","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trump-jail.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367370,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367366\/revisions\/2367370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2367367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}