A New York state judge has stayed for a week any action regarding President-elect Donald Trump’s conviction for his attempt to conceal a payment to buy Stormy Daniels’ silence during the 2016 election campaign, according to a document made public Tuesday. November 1st. 12.
Judge Juan Merchán was expected to rule Tuesday on a defense request to dismiss the entire proceeding, after the U.S. Supreme Court significantly expanded presidential immunity on July 1.Ahem July. Donald Trump maintains that the case should be dismissed based on this ruling, which prosecutors dispute.
The appeal was presented before his re-election on November 5, alleging that the evidence used by the prosecution is related to official acts during the Republican’s first term in the White House (2017-2021). But, according to email exchanges made public by the court, the defense also requested that the proceedings be frozen, “and the final classification of the case”to take into account the election of the Republican to the White House.
“The prosecutor recognizes that these are exceptional circumstances”prosecutor Matthew Colangelo admitted in an email Sunday. The judge postponed his decision until November 19 at the earliest.
“People agree that these are unprecedented circumstances”
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office said it agreed to a defense request to suspend proceedings to consider how to approach the case after Donald Trump is re-elected to the White House. The president-elect will take office in January. “People agree that these are unprecedented circumstances”the prosecution estimated.
In May, a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty in the Stormy Daniels case, making him the first former US president to be convicted in court. After six weeks of debate, a jury of 12 citizens found Donald Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying accounting to conceal from voters the payment of $130,000 to Mr.me Daniels, to avoid a sex scandal at the end of his presidential campaign, in 2016, finally won against Hillary Clinton.
His judicial horizon cleared by his re-election
The sentence, which can range from a fine to prison, should have been pronounced first on July 11 by the judge, but he agreed to postpone it for the first time to September 18 and then to November 26, at the request of Donald Trump’s lawyers. .
Donald Trump’s former Attorney General Bill Barr called for all charges to be dropped, saying they had been “engaged for political purposes and have been widely disseminated and rejected in the court of public opinion”.
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Accused in four different criminal investigations, including one before federal justice in Washington for his allegedly illicit attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 elections, the Republican has managed to delay the process for months. His re-election now almost completely clears his judicial horizon.
