In this courtroom sketch, former President Donald Trump appears before Judge Juan Merchan via video conference from Manhattan State Court, New York, where he is accused of falsifying business records and concealing a 2016 sex scandal involving a porn star. Stormy Daniels paid to keep quiet.
Jane Rosenberg | Reuters
A New York judge on Tuesday delayed a ruling for a week on whether to grant President-elect Donald Trump’s request to vacate his guilty verdict in a criminal hush-money case or to uphold the original conviction and sentence him in late November.
The delay came two days after the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office asked the judge for time to consider how Trump’s election victory would affect the case.
Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan, who was originally scheduled to issue a ruling on Tuesday, is now scheduled to decide on November 19 whether to dismiss the case.
Trump is currently scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 26 on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to his former lawyer Michael Cohen’s allegations about porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 presidential election. Regarding the hush money paid by Stormy Daniels.
Trump’s lawyers asked in July to dismiss the case and set aside the jury’s verdict, following a Supreme Court ruling that significantly expanded the scope of presidential immunity.
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