Sentencing is scheduled Jan. 10 for President-elect Donald Trump, who was found guilty by a jury in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records related to hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and will become the first convicted criminal to serve as a U.S. president.
The decision to uphold Trump’s conviction and schedule the sentencing for Jan. 10, ten days ahead of his inauguration on Jan. 20, while sparing him the possibility of jail time, almost certainly infuriates the narcissistic egomaniacal politician.
Trump faced up to four years in prison after he was convicted of falsifying business records to conceal a hush money payment to the porn star to influence the 2016 election.
Many experts said incarceration was unlikely because of Trump’s advanced age and lack of prior convictions.
New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan wrote that he does not intend to sentence Trump to jail.
Merchan indicated he plans to order an “unconditional discharge,” a designation in New York criminal courts for a non-jail and non-probation sentence that carries no other obligations.
Merchan said Trump has the option of attending the sentencing hearing at the courthouse in downtown Manhattan or participating via an online video link because it is scheduled a day after memorial services in Washington for former president Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at age 100.
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