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Trump hush money prosecutors not opposed to delaying sentencing

2024.07.02 11:31

By Luc Cohen and Susan Heavey

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Prosecutors who won the conviction of Donald Trump in May on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star said on Tuesday they would not be opposed to delaying his July 11 sentencing date, a court filing showed. 

That came after Trump’s lawyers on Monday asked that his conviction be set aside due to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling this week on presidential immunity.

In a landmark ruling on Monday, a 6-3 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court justices wrote that Trump could not be prosecuted for any actions that were within his constitutional powers as president, but could be prosecuted for unofficial acts.

That decision all but ensured that Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, would not go to trial before the Nov. 5 election on separate federal criminal charges involving his efforts to undo his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden. Trump has pleaded not guilty to those charges.

In their letter, Trump’s lawyers argued that prosecutors had presented evidence stemming from Trump’s official acts while president during his trial on charges of covering up his former lawyer Michael Cohen’s $130,000 payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. 

“The trial result cannot stand,” lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove wrote, asking to submit a full brief on the issue by July 10. 

Prosecutors with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office said that argument was “without merit” but that they had no problem giving Trump the opportunity to fully argue his case.

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump walks outside Trump Tower after the verdict in his criminal trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in New York City, U.S. May 30, 2024. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/ File Photo/File Photo

Trump pleaded not guilty and has vowed to appeal his May 30 conviction — the first-ever criminal trial of a U.S. president, past or present — after sentencing. 

Prosecutors argued Trump directed Cohen’s October 2016 payment to keep Daniels quiet about an alleged 2006 sexual encounter until after the November 2016 presidential election when he defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump denies having had sex with Daniels.



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