The judge in the ex president's hush money trial has range of sentencing options.
in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who said the two had sex.
The falsifying business records charges carry up to four years behind bars, though prosecutors have not said whether they intend to seek imprisonment, and it is not clear whether the judge — who earlier in the trial warned of jail time for gag order violations — would impose that punishment even if asked.Dan Horwitz, a defence lawyer who formerly prosecuted white-collar cases for the Manhattan District Attorney's office, told CBS Trump could be sentenced to a period of home detention.
In the event that Trump is sentenced to jail time, the location would depend on the duration of his sentence. Trump meets all three requirements. There is, arguably, another criterion laid out in the 14th Amendment, where it states that no one who has previously taken an oath of office who engages in insurrection can be an officer of the US.
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