Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has filed a motion indicating that he will not oppose a request from attorneys representing former President Donald Trump to delay sentencing in his hush-money case, though some suspect his decision could be politically motivated.
In a filing submitted ahead of the weekend, the left-wing prosecutor announced that his office would not oppose Trump’s attorneys’ motion to delay the scheduled sentencing hearing on September 18th, the Washington Examiner reported.
The filing follows a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling granting presidents absolute immunity from official acts performed in office, which Trump’s legal team claimed include the hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
In June, Trump was convicted of 34 felony charges for orchestrating the payments to aid his 2016 presidential campaign and for misclassifying the payments in business records. Bragg’s prosecutors said in their filing with Judge Juan Merchan that their office will not offer a sentencing recommendation, which could include jail time.
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“The People defer to the Court on the appropriate post-trial schedule that allows for adequate time to adjudicate defendant’s [presidential immunity] motion while also pronouncing sentence ‘without unreasonable delay,’” prosecutors wrote, according to the Examiner.
“The Supreme Court’s recent decision did not