The judge at Donald Trump’s trial in New York for hidden payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels on Thursday indefinitely suspended sentencing scheduled for November 26.
Judge Juan Merchan authorizes the lawyers of the American president-elect to present an appeal by December 2 to obtain the annulment of the procedure and he therefore suspends the pronouncement of the sentence, as these lawyers requested.
Donald Trump was convicted on May 30 in this case of “aggravated accounting falsification to conceal a conspiracy to pervert the 2016 election.”
The Manhattan court opened the way on Tuesday for this new postponement.
Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg had indicated in a court document that he would oppose an outright annulment of the procedure, but that this question deserved to be examined, which would provoke a new postponement of the sentence.
Going in line with the defense lawyers, Alvin Bragg even recognized that the freezing of all prosecutions “until the end of the presidential term” of 47e President of the United States must be considered.
Of the four criminal proceedings targeting Donald Trump, this case is the only one in which a trial was held for the candidate in the November 5 presidential election, which he won, an unprecedented scenario in American history.
He was found guilty of hiding from voters the payment of $130,000 to the porn star. The goal was to prevent a sex scandal from breaking out at the very end of his victorious campaign in 2016 against Democrat Hillary Clinton.
