The decide within the hush cash case has indicated he is not going to impose jail time, fines or probation on the president-elect.
NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court docket to name off Friday’s sentencing in his hush cash case in New York.
Trump’s legal professionals turned to the nation’s highest courtroom Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing by Decide Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump’s trial and conviction final Might on 34 felony counts of falsifying enterprise information.
The Supreme Court docket requested for a response from prosecutors in New York by Thursday.
Trump’s attorneys requested for a right away keep of Friday’s sentencing “to forestall grave injustice and hurt to the establishment of the Presidency and the operations of the federal authorities.”
The Republican president-elect’s spokesman Steven Cheung referred to as for the case to be dismissed in an announcement. The Manhattan district lawyer’s workplace mentioned it’ll reply in courtroom papers.
Merchan has indicated he is not going to impose jail time, fines or probation.
Trump’s attorneys have pointed to the Supreme Court docket’s ruling giving him broad immunity from felony prosecution as they tried to have his New York conviction tossed out.
Whereas that opinion got here in a separate election interference case in opposition to him, Trump’s legal professionals say it means among the proof used in opposition to him in his hush cash trial ought to have been shielded by presidential immunity. Merchan has disagreed.
Wednesday’s submitting is signed by John Sauer, Trump’s choose for solicitor common, who additionally represented him earlier than the excessive courtroom within the election interference case.
___ Related Press author Michael R. Sisak contributed to this report.
