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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg told Judge Juan Merchan Tuesday that helium does not reason former President Trump's petition to hold his sentencing scheduled for adjacent week.
Trump connected Monday moved to overturn his transgression condemnation successful the Manhattan lawsuit aft the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a erstwhile president has important immunity for authoritative acts committed portion successful office.
TRUMP IMMUNITY CASE: SUPREME COURT RULES EX-PRESIDENTS HAVE SUBSTANTIAL PROTECTION FROM PROSECUTION
In a 6-3 decision, the tribunal narrowed the lawsuit against the erstwhile president and returned it to the proceedings tribunal to find what is near of peculiar counsel Jack Smith's indictment.
Former US President Donald Trump, left, and Susan Necheles, lawyer for erstwhile US President Donald Trump, right, successful a courtroom astatine Manhattan transgression tribunal successful New York. (Getty Images)
Bragg charged Trump past year, and aft a six-week proceedings past month, a assemblage recovered him blameworthy connected each 34 counts of falsifying concern records successful the archetypal degree. Trump had pleaded not guilty.
Trump sent a missive to Merchan Monday nighttime asking for support to record a question to vacate the jury's Manhattan verdict and asking for a hold of his scheduled July 11 sentencing.
To record a question successful New York, defence and prosecution indispensable archetypal petition support from the justice successful the case.
Bragg, connected Tuesday, responded to that request.
"We are successful receipt of defendant's pre-motion missive dated July 1, 2024 seeking permission to record a question to acceptable speech the verdict pursuant to CPL § 330.30(1) based upon the Supreme Court's July 1, 2024 determination successful Trump v. United States," Bragg wrote. "In that letter, suspect requested until July 10, 2024 to taxable a memorandum of instrumentality successful enactment of specified motion."
Judge Juan Merchan imposed implicit a courtroom (AP)
"While defendant's missive states that helium does ‘not entity to an adjournment of the July 11, 2024 sentencing date,’ his petition to record moving papers connected July 10 is needfully a petition to adjourn the sentencing proceeding presently scheduled for July 11, 2024 pending solution of the motion," helium wrote. "Although we judge defendant's arguments to beryllium without merit, we bash not reason his petition for permission to record and his putative petition to adjourn sentencing pending determination of his motion."
Trump's sentencing was antecedently scheduled for July 11 — conscionable days earlier the Republican National Convention, wherever Trump is expected to beryllium formally nominated arsenic the 2024 Republican statesmanlike nominee.
Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.
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