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Trump Sentenced in Hush Money Case
Trump Sentenced
in Hush Money Case
Jan 10, 2025 9:15 AM CST

Trump Sentenced in Hush Money Case

President-elect avoided jail time as expected, appeared in court via video

(Newser) - Ten days before his second inauguration, Donald Trump earned an unwanted distinction on Friday—he became the first president criminally sentenced. As expected, Trump received no jail time or any punishment in his conviction over a hush money payment to a former adult film star, reports the AP . Instead, Judge...

Supreme Court Denies Attempt to Stop Trump's Sentencing

5-4 vote means president-elect will learn his punishment in hush-money case on Friday

(Newser) - On a 5-4 vote on Thursday, the Supreme Court rebuffed President-elect Trump's attempt to block sentencing—scheduled for Friday—on 34 counts in his criminal hush-money trial. The decision leaves no apparent obstacles to a sentence being imposed in New York, which would formally classify Trump as a felon...

Trump to Supreme Court: Block My Sentencing on Friday

After appeal fails in hush money case, president-elect aims for SCOTUS intervention

(Newser) - President-elect Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday's sentencing in his hush money case in New York. Trump's lawyers turned to the nation's highest court on Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing by Juan M. Merchan, the judge who presided...

Judge Rejects Trump's Bid to Postpone Sentencing
Trump's Latest Bid to
Delay Sentencing Denied
UPDATED
Jan 7, 2025 1:30 PM CST

Trump's Latest Bid to Delay Sentencing Denied

Appeals court judge rules against president-elect in emergency hearing

(Newser) - A New York appeals court judge has denied President-elect Trump's latest bid to delay this week's sentencing in his hush-money case. In a one-sentence ruling following an emergency hearing Tuesday, Judge Ellen Gesmer denied Trump's request for an immediate order that would spare him from being sentenced...

Trump's Lawyers Ask That Friday's Sentencing Be Halted

They are appealing Judge Merchan's recent rulings in hush-money case

(Newser) - President-elect Trump's lawyers asked a judge Monday to halt this week's sentencing in his hush money case while they appeal his recent rulings upholding the verdict. Trump's lawyers said they plan to ask a state appeals court to reverse Judge Juan Merchan's Friday decision, which set...

Judge Keeps Trump Conviction but Backs Giving No Jail Time

Sentencing in hush-money case will take place before inauguration

(Newser) - A judge declined to dismiss President-elect Trump's conviction in his hush money case on Friday and scheduled sentencing for Jan. 10—just over a week before Inauguration Day. At the same time, Judge Juan Merchan indicated in a written decision that the president-elect will not go to jail, the...

Trump's Actions in Hush-Money Case Aren't Protected: Judge

Merchan still could throw out president-elect's convictions

(Newser) - The Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity does not require that President-elect Trump's hush-money convictions be thrown out, a judge ruled Monday. Judge Juan Merchan found that the evidence presented by the Manhattan district attorney was connected "entirely to unofficial conduct" by Trump and not to his...

DA Suggests 'Novel Remedies' in Trump Case

One option is to close the case with a notation acknowledging the conviction

(Newser) - Eager to preserve President-elect Trump's hush-money conviction even as he returns to office, prosecutors are suggesting various ways to handle the criminal case—including the novel notion of borrowing a procedure some courts use when defendants die. In court papers made public on Tuesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg'...

In NY Case, Trump Lawyers Cite Hunter Biden Pardon

They accuse DA of engaging in 'the type of political theater' that president condemned

(Newser) - President-elect Trump's lawyers cited President Biden's pardoning of his son in their latest bid to have Trump's hush-money conviction tossed. In the filing made public Tuesday, Trump attorneys Todd Blance and Emil Bove said that "in issuing a 10-year-pardon to Hunter Biden that covers any and...

Manhattan DA: Trump's Case Can't Be Dropped
Manhattan Judge Postpones
Sentencing of Trump
UPDATED
Nov 22, 2024 10:31 AM CST

Manhattan Judge Postpones Sentencing of Trump

Juan Merchan will consider defense request to dismiss the hush-money case

(Newser) - The judge in Donald Trump's hush-money case has postponed sentencing originally scheduled to take place next week, reports ABC News . The move by Judge Juan Merchan isn't a big surprise: Prosecutors said earlier this week they were open to putting the case on hold until Trump serves out...

NY Judge Delays Ruling on Scrapping Trump's Conviction

Juan Merchan kicks can down the road to Nov. 19 in hush money case

(Newser) - A judge on Tuesday postponed a decision on whether to undo President-elect Trump's conviction in his hush money case as his lawyers argued that his election last week warrants dismissing the case altogether so he can run the country. New York Judge Juan Merchan had been set to rule...

Supreme Court Has Bad News for Michael Cohen

Justices uphold ruling that lawsuit against Trump claiming retaliatory imprisonment can't go forward

(Newser) - The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from Michael Cohen, who wanted to hold his former boss and ex-president Donald Trump liable for a jailing he said was retaliation for writing a tell-all memoir. The justices did not detail their reasoning in the brief order, reports the AP , as is...

Trump Seeks Postponement in Hush-Money Sentencing
Trump Wants Sentencing Delay
Aug 15, 2024 6:25 PM CDT

Trump Wants Sentencing Delay

Letter to judge suggests post-election hearing in hush-money case

(Newser) - Donald Trump wants the judge in his criminal hush-money case to again postpone sentencing, with his lawyers saying in a letter, "There is no basis for continuing to rush." Judge Juan Merchan has postponed a sentencing hearing once, after the Supreme Court released its ruling on presidential immunity....

SCOTUS Rules Against Move to Nix Trump Gag Order

High court rebuffs Missouri AG's argument that gag order in NY hush-money case would stifle Trump

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Monday shut down a long-shot push from Missouri to remove a gag order in former President Trump's hush-money case and delay his sentencing in New York. The Missouri attorney general went to the high court with the unusual request to sue New York after the...

New York Court Keeps Trump's Gag Order in Effect

Court denies former president's appeal; Merchan's order will stay in effect until sentencing

(Newser) - A New York appeals court on Thursday denied Donald Trump's bid to end a gag order in his hush-money criminal case, reports the AP , rejecting the former president's argument that his May conviction "constitutes a change in circumstances" that warrants lifting the restrictions. A five-judge panel in...

Trump Prosecutors Say Ruling on Immunity 'Has No Bearing'

Hush-money trial didn't involve official acts, Bragg's filing argues

(Newser) - Manhattan prosecutors have made their argument to the judge who presided over Donald Trump's criminal hush-money trial that he should uphold the conviction despite the Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. The filing by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office, an answer to Trump's appeal citing the...

Trump Lawyers Make Case for Tossing Conviction

Prosecutors should have waited for Supreme Court ruling, defense argues

(Newser) - Donald Trump's lawyers have made their arguments for overturning the conviction in his hush-money trial, a motion released Thursday shows. The filing contends the US Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity this month means some of the evidence should not have been allowed in the trial, the Washington Post...

Trump Sentencing Delayed Until September

'TOTAL EXONERATION,' he says

(Newser) - Donald Trump's sentencing in his New York hush-money case won't happen until September—if it happens at all. Judge Juan Merchan, in response to legal filings from Trump's team after Monday's Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity, pushed the sentencing date back Tuesday from July 11...

DA OKs Delaying Trump's Sentencing
DA OKs Delaying
Trump's Sentencing
Jul 2, 2024 10:30 AM CDT

DA OKs Delaying Trump's Sentencing

Alvin Bragg says sentencing on 34 felonies can stall until July 24

(Newser) - Manhattan prosecutors said they'd be open to delaying Donald Trump's sentencing in his criminal hush-money case following a Supreme Court ruling that granted broad immunity protections to presidents. In a letter filed Tuesday, prosecutors with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office said they wouldn't oppose delaying...

After Storm of Threats, Bragg's Office Makes an Ask

Prosecutors ask judge to keep much of Trump gag order in place in hush-money case till sentencing

(Newser) - Manhattan's district attorney has asked the judge who oversaw Donald Trump's hush-money trial to extend the former president's gag order, with modifications. The Guardian notes that the gag order, which Trump's circle has long pushed back on, was placed on Trump before his felony trial kicked...

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