Prosecutors prepare to consider fate of Trump New York hush money case – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

• Prosecutors in New York will tell the judge whether they believe the hush money case against President-elect Donald Trump should be commuted or dismissed outright.
• The Manhattan Supreme Court case is one of four criminal investigations against the Republican, whose fate is in limbo due to his election victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.
• The hush money case concerns a payment that Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.

Prosecutors will tell the judge on Tuesday whether this is the culprit. hush money Lawsuit against the president-elect Donald Trump He should be sentenced as planned or removed from office after his election victory, as his lawyers demanded.

new York case is one in four criminal prosecutions against Trump, whose fate is uncertain — or nearly doomed — because of the Republican election victory over the Vice President two weeks ago. Kamala Harris

Trump was prisoner in Manhattan in May Supreme Court One of 34 felonies for falsifying business records.

These records related to a $130,000 payment that her then-private attorney, Michael Cohen, made to the porn star shortly before the 2016 election. Stormy Daniels to buy her silence about an alleged one-off sexual tryst with Trump a decade ago.

Judge Juan Merchan was expected to rule on Trump’s lawyers’ request for dismissal on November 12 at the earliest. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office opposed the request.

But immediately after Trump’s election victory, the prosecutor’s office told Merchan they asked him to delay his decision to give them time to determine how the victory affected the case.

Merchan gave them a week to do this.

Before the requested stay, Trump was scheduled to be sentenced on November 26. If the case is not dismissed and Trump is sentenced, he is not expected to serve a possible prison sentence until he leaves the White House in more than four years. Now.

Two criminal cases filed against Trump in federal court are expected to be dismissed before or shortly after Trump enters the White House. Trump has the authority to order his attorney general to drop those cases. The Department of Justice, which the AG leads, also has a policy of not prosecuting sitting presidents.

In one of those cases, Trump is charged in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., with crimes related to his effort to offset his 2020 election loss against the President. Joe Biden.

The judge there was considering the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s July decision on this case; Before Trump’s election, special counsel Jack Smith asked him to pause all proceedings for now.

Smith also asked a federal appeals court in Atlanta to pause hearings in an attempt to reverse the impeachment of Florida federal district court Judge Aileen Cannon over accusations against Trump that he withheld secret government records after he left the White House. The appeals court, like Washington, acknowledged the delay, which was seen as a precursor to the Justice Department dropping the case altogether.

In the fourth criminal case in state court in Atlanta, Trump and more than a dozen defendants are charged with crimes tied to his attempts to overturn his 2020 defeat to Biden in Georgia.

Trump and some of the other defendants are appealing a trial court decision that allowed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the case even though she had a romantic relationship with the top prosecutor she assigned to the case.

on monday, Court of Appeals of GeorgiaWithout any explanation, it canceled oral arguments until further notice on Trump’s appeal, which is scheduled for December 5.