Manhattan DA will fight Trump's bid to dismiss criminal conviction; won't oppose sentencing delay

Source: Courthouse News Service

November 19, 2024


MANHATTAN (CN) — Manhattan prosecutors intend to fight President-elect Donald Trump’s effort to dismiss the guilty verdict in his criminal fraud case, according to a letter filed Tuesday by District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

A jury in May found Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records. The crimes were part of a broader scheme prosecutors described as Trump working to combat bad press related to his 2016 presidential campaign by paying hush money to an adult film star with whom he cheated on his wife a decade earlier.

New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan had planned to issue an order last week on whether Trump’s conviction should stand following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling for broad presidential immunity — but the judge delayed his ruling after Trump won the Nov. 5 presidential election to give prosecutors time to traverse the uncharted legal waters.

Trump has argued that the Supreme Court ruling means certain testimony from the six-week trial should have been withheld.

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