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   From: Watching@cheating-democrats.org   
      
   The Manhattan judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s “hush money” criminal   
   trial is expected to announce next week if the president-elect’s   
   historic felony conviction will still stand.   
      
   Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan had already delayed   
   sentencing by more than four months to come after the election — and   
   gave himself until next Tuesday to decide if the conviction should be   
   tossed.   
      
   Trump’s overwhelming election win will further embolden his legal team   
   “to make sure that sentencing never happens,” CNN chief legal affairs   
   correspondent Paula Reid noted late Wednesday.   
      
   “Here, they’re going to argue to the judge that the sentencing should   
   never happen because now that Trump is president-elect,” Reid noted.   
      
   “They will say that he is entitled to the same constitutional   
   protections as a sitting president and should be protected from state   
   actors, and in this case, state prosecutors.”   
      
   Trump, 78, faces up to four years in prison after being convicted of 34   
   counts of felony falsifying business records to cover up payments to   
   porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.   
      
   Legal experts have already predicted Trump won’t face hard time.   
      
   “Merchan doesn’t have the stomach to imprison a former president or   
   president-elect,” former prosecutor Neama Rahmani said.   
      
   “Now that Trump has won, his criminal problems go away.”   
      
   https://nypost.com/2024/11/07/us-news/judge-in-trumps-hush-money   
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