Judge Juan Merchan may soon dismiss President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York, CNN senior legal expert Elie Honig predicted Tuesday.
Merchanon postponed his decision on Trump’s move to overturn the verdict on the grounds of presidential immunity on November 12 by granting a joint plea by the defense and prosecution teams to postpone all deadlines in the case until Tuesday.The office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has indicated that it concurs with Trump’s legal team that Merchan should close the case now that Trump has been elected president, according to Honig on CNN News Central.
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Hearing from the Manhattan DA will be our first course of action. They will adopt one of two strategies. They will either declare, “We agree with Donald Trump that this case is over because he is now the president-elect.” “That is the first option,” Honig stated. The Manhattan DA’s case, option two, might state, “We disagree with Donald Trump.” We want to move forward despite the fact that he is the president-elect. The matter will then be brought before Judge Merchan. Because Trump is the president-elect, he will determine whether the case continues or ends.
Judge Merchan will decide the immunity rule if it continues. Then, based on the outcome, might move on with sentencing. However, he added, the Manhattan DA indicated in its submission last week that there are many ifs there. Their perspective seemed to be similar to that of Donald Trump’s camp, which is that since he is the president-elect, it is now done. However, we’ll find out the DA’s position today.
CNN hostHonig was asked by John Berman if the case might be completed by Tuesday’s closing of business.
It might be. This lawsuit is over if the DA files a document with the judge stating, “We agree with Donald Trump’s team because he is president elect.” Honig replied, “Judge Merchan will then review that.” He could declare, “That’s it, case closed,” if he agrees with both parties. We will not discuss the immunity finding at this time. Sentencing is not what we do. John, that’s a possibility.
In May, Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying company documents by a jury. Honig had earlier hinted that Merchan might overturn the decision because of the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity, which was possibly violated by some of the evidence used in Trump’s trial.
However, from the prosecutor’s perspective, the issue is that part of the evidence they presented during the trial did, in fact, pertain to discussions Trump had when he was in the White House, he added. One important witness regarding the discussions she had while serving as communications director was Hope Hicks. After that trial, the immunity ruling was made, but it remains the law of the land.
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