The president-elect’s attempt to overturn his guilty judgment on the grounds of presidential immunity was rejected by the New York judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s hush money trial.
Judge Juan Merchan wrote, “Defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment and verdict is denied,” in a ruling on Monday.
After rejecting Trump’s claim that his election victory already grants him presidential protection, he issued the ruling. When the judge wrote, “This court does not agree,”
In May, Trump was found guilty on 34 charges of falsifying business documents pertaining to a hush money payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels by his former attorney, Michael Cohen, during the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump has refuted Daniels’ claim that she had a sexual encounter with him in 2006.
Given a Supreme Court decision that broadened the definition of presidential immunity a few weeks later, Trump’s lawyers had said that the indictment and verdict ought to be overturned.
They argued that the Manhattan district attorney’s office prosecutors shouldn’t have been permitted to show jurors any documentation of Trump’s official actions, such as his remarks made in public on the case. The prosecution retorted that the verdict should stand and that the evidence had no bearing on it.
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