Trump seeks to delay sentencing in "hush money" case until after election

Attorneys for erstwhile President Donald Trump asked the justice overseeing his criminal lawsuit successful New York to hold his sentencing until aft the statesmanlike predetermination successful November, arguing that a hold is indispensable to resoluteness ongoing ineligible challenges to his conviction.

In a letter to Justice Juan Merchan, the justice overseeing the case, Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove noted that the existent sentencing day of Sept. 18 would travel aft aboriginal voting has already begun.

"Sentencing is presently scheduled to hap aft the commencement of aboriginal voting successful the Presidential election," Blanche and Bove wrote. "By adjourning the sentencing until aft that predetermination … the Court would reduce, adjacent if not eliminate, issues regarding the integrity of immoderate aboriginal proceedings."

Trump was convicted by a unanimous assemblage connected 34 felony counts of falsifying concern records successful May. Prosecutors had argued helium orchestrated a strategy portion president to fell reimbursements to a lawyer who wired a "hush money" outgo to big movie prima Stormy Daniels days earlier the 2016 statesmanlike predetermination to support voters from learning astir allegations of an extramarital intersexual encounter. Trump denied the brushwood and pleaded not guilty.

Trump has sought to overturn the conviction, citing a caller Supreme Court ruling connected "presidential immunity." His lawyers argued that delaying the sentencing would let them much clip to program for appealing a rejection of their effort to overturn the case. The justice has said he'll regularisation connected that question connected Sept. 6

"There is nary valid countervailing crushed for the Court to support the existent sentencing day connected the calendar. There is nary ground for continuing to rush," they wrote, claiming keeping the day would service "naked election-interference objectives."

A spokesperson for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg declined to comment.