Photo: Justin Lane Associated Press Donald Trump, during a day of hearings in New York, May 3
Agence France-Presse in New York
Published at 11:03 Updated at 12:28
- United States
The judge in Donald Trump's New York trial for concealed payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels on Thursday suspended indefinitely the sentencing scheduled for November 26.
Judge Juan Merchan granted the president-elect’s lawyers permission to file an appeal by December 2 to have the proceedings dismissed, and therefore stayed sentencing, as they had requested.
Donald Trump was found guilty on May 30 in this case of “aggravated false accounting to conceal a conspiracy to subvert the 2016 election.”
The Manhattan prosecutor’s office had opened the way for this new postponement on Tuesday.
Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg had indicated in a court document that he would oppose an outright dismissal of the proceedings, but that the issue deserved to be examined, which would result in a new postponement of the case. sentence.
Along the lines of the defense attorneys, Alvin Bragg even acknowledged that freezing all prosecutions “until the end of the presidential term” of the 47th President of the United States should be considered.
Of the four criminal proceedings against Donald Trump, this case is the only one in which a trial was held for the candidate in the November 5 presidential election that he won, an unprecedented scenario in American history.
He was found guilty of hiding from voters the payment of $130,000 to the porn star. The goal was to avoid a sex scandal breaking out at the very end of his victorious campaign in 2016 against Democrat Hillary Clinton.