Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has indicated that President-elect Donald Trump could still be sentenced for falsifying business records before his inauguration, according to a legal expert.
Joyce Vance, a former federal prosecutor, discussed the arguments brought forth by Bragg’s team against dismissing Trump’s hush money case on the grounds of presidential immunity and claims that sentencing Trump would disrupt the president-elect’s transition process.
Bragg’s office proposed several solutions to Judge Juan Merchan regarding Trump’s sentencing for 34 felony charges of falsifying business records. These include guaranteeing that Trump would not receive a custodial sentence or delaying sentencing until after Trump leaves office in 2029.
In her Civil Discourse blog, Vance, a former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama during the Obama administration, wrote on Wednesday that Bragg has not ruled out the possibility that Merchan could decide to sentence Trump before his inauguration on January 20.
“The district attorney flatly rejected Trump’s argument that the Supreme …