Left: Judge Juan Merchan poses for a picture in his chambers in New York, Thursday, March 14, 2024. Merchan is presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money case in New York (AP Photo/Seth Wenig). Right: FILE – Former President Donald Trump is escorted to a courtroom, April 4, 2023, in New York (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File).
Donald Trump will become the first U.S. president to be inaugurated as a convicted felon when he is sworn into office in 10 days after a judge in New York sentenced him to an “unconditional discharge” in the criminal hush-money case over funds paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2020 election.
The sentence, handed down Friday by Acting New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan, effectively means that Trump will not suffer any adverse legal consequences, but his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records still stand.
Trump appeared virtually for the proceedings in Manhattan, which he had fought tooth and nail to stop from taking place. The legal wrangling between the president-elect and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office came to a head on Thursday evening when the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to reject Trump’s request that the sentencing hearing be delayed indefinitely.
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