Following his victory in the election, New York City prosecutors on Tuesday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s request to reject his criminal conviction, saying rather that they were prepared to freeze the case while he is in business.
The prosecution pointed out that a judge had now found Trump guilty of falsifying information to cover up a sex scandal in a letter to the judge who was in charge of the case.
However, the prosecution faced the possibility of a four-year freeze because of the case’s extraordinary nature: Trump would be the first criminal to hold office. ” The people greatly respect the office of the president, are wary of the demands and responsibilities of the presidency, and acknowledge that defendant’s opening will raise extraordinary legal questions”, lawyers from the Manhattan district attorney’s office wrote to the judge, Juan Merchan. The jury’s important function in our constitutional system is also significantly respected.
Trump is now expected to launch a legal fight that could loom over his second term in office and finally achieve the US Supreme Court. He is anxious to clear his legal record. That struggle will almost certainly further pause Trump’s punishment, which was scheduled for next week.
Trump’s attorneys argued in court documents released last week that the situation might be challenged by the Supreme Court that dismissing it had “avoid illegal obstacles to Trump’s ability to govern.” Doing thus, they added, was “in the interests of justice”.
The district attorney, Alvin L Bragg, took a year to premeditated before delivering Tuesday’s much-anticipated answer. His options were constrained and uninteresting, with the latter option being sometimes to drop the case, which would have alienated his liberal Manhattan center, or to suggest a halt, which might lead to further enraging Trump’s indignation and a legal challenge. Finally, Bragg, the second prosecutor in the country to prosecute and prisoner a former leader, opted to have behind the jury’s verdict.
