NY judge delays Trump sentencing in Stormy Daniels case until after US election
As requested by Donald Trump's lawyers, New York judge Juan Merchan decided on Friday to postpone the Republican presidential candidate's sentencing in the Stormy Daniels hush money trial until after the November 5 election. Trump had been scheduled to be sentenced on September 18 for falsifying business records in a scheme to silence the porn star's politically damaging story.
Sentencing of Donald Trump in his New York hush money trial was delayed Friday until after November's presidential election, a win for the Republican as he battles Democrat Kamala Harris in the knife-edge race.
The former president had been scheduled to be sentenced on September 18 for falsifying business records in a scheme to silence a porn star's politically damaging story.
But Judge Juan Merchan postponed it to November 26 -- well past the November 5 election, as requested by Trump's lawyers.
"This is not a decision this Court makes lightly but it is the decision which in this Court's view, best advances the interests of justice," he wrote in his decision.
He was originally scheduled to be sentenced on July 11.
Trump's lawyers asked that his New York conviction be dismissed following the Supreme Court immunity ruling. Merchan said he would rule on the dismissal motion on November 12.
(AFP)
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