President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal conviction in state court remains upheld Monday after a New York judge rejected the president’s efforts to have the case thrown out based on a landmark Supreme Court decision I am doing it.
Judge Juan Machan Supreme Court ruling in July Granting President Trump immunity for official conduct did not prevent a jury from finding him guilty after a criminal trial this spring.
Marchan said the evidence presented at trial concerned “entirely unofficial conduct” and was beyond the scope of the Supreme Court’s decision, which was narrow in scope.
“Even if there had been an error in introducing the challenged evidence, such error was harmless in light of the overwhelming incriminating evidence,” Marchand wrote.
Merchan was like that Judgment scheduled for November 12th Trump held off on making a decision during a debate this spring about whether presidential privilege should have prevented jurors from seeing certain evidence at his trial. Marchan said at the time that he wanted to hear from prosecutors about how to proceed with the case, which entered uncharted territory after Trump was reelected as president.
President Trump has since filed another motion to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that it is necessary for his return to the White House in the near future.
Prosecutors under Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg have resisted the effort, arguing that there is no law requiring state cases to be dismissed after conviction because a defendant was elected president.
Trump is the first person in U.S. history to be elected president after being convicted of a crime. He was also the first former president. be tried for a crime.
a The jury unanimously found him guilty Felony case in May. A few weeks later, The Supreme Court has ruled that former presidents have immunity. Exempted from prosecution for official acts. In its ruling, the country’s highest court said evidence related to Trump’s activities as president could not be used at trial.
Trump’s lawyers claim Supreme Court ruling meant the conviction should be set asideand the charges were dismissed. They argued that his trial included testimony from former White House officials that should have been prohibited.
Bragg’s office opposed the motion to dismiss, saying the testimony at issue was only “part of the mountain” of evidence in the case.
In his ruling, Marchan wrote that Trump’s lawyers did not object during the trial to testimony they believed was improperly admitted.
The jury found that President Trump committed 34 felonies In approving a plan to conceal reimbursement to michael coenhis former lawyer and fixer. Cohen paid $130,000 to adult film star stormy danielsdays before the 2016 presidential election, in exchange for silence about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump.
“Was the president’s internal actions to hide payments to adult film actresses official or unofficial in order to keep from public view information about encounters that occurred before he took office?” Marchand wrote in the ruling. I asked this at the time. He concluded that these were unofficial acts, but even if they were not, “the use of these acts as evidence of clearly personal acts of falsifying business records would be It does not pose a risk to the job,” he added.
Trump has maintained his innocence and vehemently denied Daniels’ story. President Trump has promised to appeal the conviction. He can separately appeal Marchand’s ruling on presidential immunity.
President Trump’s press secretary, Stephen Chan, called Marchan an “acting judge” and said, “Acting Judge Marchand’s deeply contradictory decisions in the Manhattan DA’s witch hunt are based on Supreme Court decisions on immunity and other longstanding decisions.” “This is a direct violation of judicial precedent.” We demand that this lawsuit be dismissed immediately because the no-fault lawsuit should never have been filed and the Constitution requires that President Trump be allowed to continue the presidential transition process and carry out the important duties of the presidency. There is. The sooner these hoaxes end, unencumbered by the remains of this and other witch hunts, the sooner our country will be able to unite under President Trump for the betterment of all Americans. ”
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