NEW YORK (AP) — Attorneys for Donald Trump headed to a New York judge Monday Quiet money investigation His sentence should be set aside and his sentence delayed until next week.
Quoted in letter to Judge Juan M. Merchan US Supreme Court ruling Earlier Monday, he asked a judge to delay Trump’s sentencing while the high court weighed a ruling, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press.
According to the letter, the lawyers argued that the Supreme Court’s decision affirmed the position of an earlier argument in the case that prosecutors should have been barred from introducing some evidence of what they said were official presidential acts.
In previous court filings, Trump has argued that he is immune from prosecution for alleged conduct while in office. His lawyers did not raise that as an argument in the hush money case, but argued that some of the evidence — including Trump’s social media posts about former lawyer Michael Cohen — came from his time as president and should have been excluded from the trial because of immunity. Safeguards.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office declined to comment Monday night.
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled for the first time that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, extending a delay in Washington’s criminal case against Trump. Plotted to defeat 2020 presidential election.
Trump was convicted in New York of falsifying 34 business records stemming from what prosecutors say was an attempt to cover up money laundering shortly before the 2016 presidential election. He will be sentenced on July 11 in the extortion case.
Merchan instituted a pre-trial policy requiring both sides to send him a one-page letter summarizing their arguments before lengthy court filings. He said he did so to better manage the document so he wasn’t overwhelmed by huge documents.
In denying Trump’s bid to transfer the trial from New York state court to federal court last year, A federal judge found The allegations at the center of the lawsuit relate to Trump’s personal life and “in no way reflect the color of the President’s official duties.”
US District Judge Alvin K. In the Hellerstein ruling, “the evidence overwhelmingly suggests that this matter was entirely a personal matter for the President — a cover-up of an embarrassing incident.”
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Sisak contributed from Fort Pierce, Florida.
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