President-elect Donald Trump will be sentenced Friday in a business records case in which a Manhattan jury found him guilty of falsifying business records.
New York County Supreme Court Judge Juan Marchand sentenced Trump, who is expected to attend the trial virtually.
As reported by Breitbart News, President Trump made the 11th-hour decision after the New York State Court of Appeals rejected his efforts to postpone the hearing and the state's Supreme Court declined to take the case. He had petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the criminal proceedings. request.
However, the Supreme Court ruled that sentencing could proceed.
AFP report Prosecutors opposed efforts to avoid the verdict 10 days before Trump is scheduled to be sworn in for a second term, and the Supreme Court will hear the case when the 78-year-old still has an avenue to appeal. He argued that it was wrong to do so. In New York.
Prosecutors told the Supreme Court that “this court lacks jurisdiction over state court control of an ongoing criminal trial if the defendant has not exhausted its state law remedies.''
Trump's lawyers called the case politically motivated, calling the sentence a “grave injustice” and threatening to disrupt the presidential transition as Republicans prepare to return to the White House. said.
AP report Machan has indicated he is planning a sentence without penalties, known as unconditional release, which prosecutors have not opposed. That means no jail time, no probation, no fines, but nothing will be final until after Friday's hearing.
The sentencing begins at 9:30 a.m. ET.
