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By adjourning the sentencing until after that election — which is of paramount importance to the entire Nation, ... the Court would reduce, even if not eliminate, issues regarding the integrity of any future proceedings."
the letter from Trump lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove to Judge Juan Merchan reads By suggesting that Authentic’s work is connected to those proceedings—in which a jury of Donald Trump’s peers found him guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records—the Committee is severely misleading the public,
A single business day is an unreasonably short period of time
The Court should adjourn any sentencing in this case, though one should not be necessary because dismissal and vacatur of the jury’s verdicts are required based on Presidential immunity, until after the 2024 Presidential election,
Blanche wrote in a letter to Merchan Accordingly, we respectfully request that any sentencing, if one is needed, be adjourned until after the Presidential election."
There is no basis for continuing to rush,
Setting aside naked election-interference objectives, there is no valid countervailing reason for the Court to keep the current sentencing date on the calendar,
Trump lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove wrote It was booked more than two years in advance to ensure a date certain to celebrate lead counsel's 70th birthday and 45th wedding anniversary,
Sadow explained in a July 23 motion obtained by Atlanta-based NBC affiliate WXIA Merchan has already decided that he will deny Trump's immunity motion. There is, moreover, a high likelihood that he will impose a prison sentence against Trump right after that,
Prepare for Merchan to deny Trump's immunity claim ... and strap in for sentencing on Sept. 18,
I think a prison sentence is unlikely for a first time nonviolent Class E felony,
Syracuse University law professor Gregory Germain previously told Newsweek He said he plans to rule on Trump's immunity claim by Aug. 16,
And it's not like Merchan is actually going to put Trump in prison; it is virtually certain that Trump will get bail pending appeal, so Merchan can appear to impose a stiff incarceration sentence without any real incarceration—at least for now, and probably ever,
Sentencing is currently scheduled to occur after the commencement of early voting in the presidential election,
the lawyers, Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, wrote Even though Judge Cannon ultimately dismissed the prosecution, for dubious reasons, she did so on procedural grounds related to Smith's appointment. It doesn't mean Trump is actually innocent,
The government has broad immunity from civil lawsuits, absent some violation of a clearly established constitutional right. There isn't any such violation here, so I don't expect this lawsuit to go anywhere,