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The Manhattan judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s “hush money” criminal trial is expected to announce next week if the president-elect’s
historic felony conviction will still stand.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan had already delayed
sentencing by more than four months to come after the election — and
gave himself until next Tuesday to decide if the conviction should be
tossed.

Trump’s overwhelming election win will further embolden his legal team
“to make sure that sentencing never happens,” CNN chief legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid noted late Wednesday.

“Here, they’re going to argue to the judge that the sentencing should
never happen because now that Trump is president-elect,” Reid noted.

“They will say that he is entitled to the same constitutional
protections as a sitting president and should be protected from state
actors, and in this case, state prosecutors.”

Trump, 78, faces up to four years in prison after being convicted of 34
counts of felony falsifying business records to cover up payments to
porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.

Legal experts have already predicted Trump won’t face hard time.

“Merchan doesn’t have the stomach to imprison a former president or president-elect,” former prosecutor Neama Rahmani said.

“Now that Trump has won, his criminal problems go away.”

https://nypost.com/2024/11/07/us-news/judge-in-trumps-hush-money-trial-considers-tossing-felony-conviction/

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