A New York judge has denied Donald Trump's request to delay sentencing in his hush money case, setting the stage for the former president to be sentenced on Friday.
A New York judge has rejected US president-elect Donald Trump 's request to delay sentencing in his hush money case, set for later this week. Judge Juan Merchan ruled last week that, despite Trump 's upcoming inauguration, the sentencing should go ahead on Friday, rejecting his attorney's argument that his election victory should have brought an end to the case.
In a two-page decision, Merchan noted that prosecutors had opposed delaying the sentencing and said it should go ahead as planned, barring a last-minute successful appeal by Trump to a higher court. 'This court has considered defendant's arguments in support of his motion and finds that they are, for the most part, a repetition of the arguments he has raised numerous times in the past,' Justice Juan Merchan. 'Defendant's motion for a stay of these proceedings, including the sentencing hearing scheduled for January 10, 2025, is hereby DENIED.' Merchan has given Trump, the first former president ever convicted of a crime, the option of appearing either in person or virtually at Friday's sentencing and has said he was not inclined to impose jail time on the former and incoming president. Trump's attorneys had asked the judge to delay sentencing while they appeal his conviction by a Manhattan jury. He was convicted in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election to stop her from revealing an alleged 2006 sexual encounter
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