A judge has set Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush money case for January 10, a week before his inauguration, but indicated he won't jail him.
A judge has set Donald Trump 's sentencing in his hush money case for January 10, just over a week before he is due to return to the White House. However, the judge indicated that he would not jail Trump. Judge Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump's trial, signaled in a written decision that he would sentence the former and future president to a conditional discharge, in which a case gets dismissed if a defendant avoids rearrest.
Merchan rejected Trump's push to dismiss the verdict and throw out the case on presidential immunity grounds and because of his impending return to the White House. The judge said he found 'no legal impediment to sentencing' Trump and that it was 'incumbent' on him to sentence Trump prior to his swearing in on January 20. Trump was convicted in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records. They involved an alleged scheme to hide a hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels in the last weeks of Trump's first campaign in 2016. The payout was made to keep her from publicizing claims she'd had sex with the married Trump years earlier. He says that her story is false and that he did nothing wrong. After Trump's November 5 election, Merchan halted proceedings and indefinitely postponed the sentencing so the defense and prosecution could weigh in on the future of the case. Trump's lawyers urged Merchan to toss it. They said it would otherwise pose unconstitutional 'disruptions' to the incoming president's ability to run the country. Prosecutors acknowledged there should be some accommodation for his upcoming presidency, but they insisted the conviction should stand. They suggested various options, such as freezing the case during his term or guaranteeing him a no-jail sentence
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