Of course there will be NO Jail time…
But?
The tag ‘Convicted Felon’ STICKS for the first time for an American President In Office….
New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan wrote in his ruling that he does not intend to sentence Trump to jail.
Trump was convicted in May of falsifying business records to conceal a hush-money payment to an adult-film star ahead of the 2016 election. He faced up to four years in prison, but many experts said incarceration was unlikely because of his age and his lack of prior convictions.
Since Trump’s victory at the polls in November, his lawyers have argued that anything short of dismissing the case would violate laws that protect the transition process and grant immunity from prosecution to sitting presidents….
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In his decision, Merchan wrote that Trump’s legal team was essentially asking the court to recognize a “novel theory” of presidential immunity in which the conviction would be thrown out or one of two reasons: either because a president-elect, like a sitting president, is not subject to any criminal proceedings; or because the immunity would be applied retroactively to nullify a jury’s verdict that was rendered before Trump was even elected to another White House term.
The district attorney’s office argued throwing out the case entirely “would go well beyond what is necessary to protect the presidency and would subvert the compelling public interest in preserving the jury’s unanimous verdict and upholding the rule of law.”
The case was the only one of Trump’s four criminal indictments to go to trial before the 2024 presidential election. His victory at the polls made it extremely unlikely he would face additional proceedings in the other cases — at least over the next four years….
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Separately, Merchan found in a decision Dec. 16 that the high court’s immunity ruling did not nullify Trump’s case in New York because his conduct had no connection to his official duties and the crimes were launched before his first term began in 2017. He also found the defense failed during Trump’s trial to preserve some of his rights to make certain immunity arguments after the fact.
The jury deliberated just over a day before finding Trump guilty on May 30, marking the first time a former president was convicted of a crime. Evidence presented at trial showed he tried to conceal a $130,000payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels in the weeks before the 2016 election as he faced a cascade of sex-related scandals that threatened to derail his campaign….
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Trump’s final indictment is in Georgia, where he and more than a dozen others are accused of a broad conspiracy to block the 2020 election results in that state. The case has been delayed by allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, and many experts believe it cannot move forward while Trump is president. Trump’s lawyers are also trying to get his Georgia case dismissed, citing his election win….
Note….
Trump is still on the hook for a half Billion in fines to NY State on a fraud case
And
A possible other $83 Million to E. Jean Carroll for sexual harrasment and deformation…..
image…Politico
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