A judge on Friday set Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush-money case for 10 January – little over a week before he is due to return to the White House – but promised not to jail him.
Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over Trump’s trial in New York, denied the president-elect’s motion to dismiss the case due to his election victory in November. He said Trump is expected to appear for sentencing either in-person or virtually.
But Merchan signalled in an 18-page written decision that he does not intend to impose a prison sentence since prosecutors “concede they no longer view [it] as a practicable recommendation” in the light of Trump’s election win in November.
A sentence of “unconditional discharge” – meaning no custody, monetary fine or probation – would be “the most viable solution”, Merchan wrote.
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