One year ago today, a jury of 12 New York Donald Trump’s jury condemned to falsify business records as part of the alleged Hateth Money plan to influence the 2016 elections.
The condemnation left a signless sign of Trump – which makes him the first president or former president to condemn a crime – and his battles to erase this legacy continues to this day.
On June 11, the Federal Appeal Court in Manhattan is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the renewed legal battle of the president to transfer his criminal case from the state to the Federal Court.
Alphine Prague, the lawyer for Manhattan Province, opposes this step – on the pretext that the case cannot be transferred to the Federal Court after the conviction – but Trump’s lawyers argued with “unprecedented criminal prosecution of a former and current president of the United States belonging to the Federal Court.”
Trump was condemned on 34 felony charges after public prosecutors claimed that he participated in a “plan” to enhance his chances during the 2016 presidential election through a series of tumultuous money payments for the star of the adult film Daniels and falsify business records in New York to cover up the alleged criminal behavior.
Ten days before Trump was deposited as a president last November, a New York Judge Juan Mirchhan sentenced him to unconditional secretions – without imprisonment, fines or monitoring – saying that it is the “only legal sentence” to prevent “infringement of the highest position on the ground.”
“I won the elections in a huge landslide, and the inhabitants of this country understand what happened. This was a weapon for the government,” Trump told the court.
New York State Judge, Juan Mirchhan, President -elect Donald Trump, as he appears remotely alongside his lawyer Todd Blanche to attend a hearing of the ruling, where Prosecutor Joshua Stellas listens to the New York Criminal Court in New York City, January 10, 2025.
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Trump continues to reject any violations, and his lawyers have argued that his conviction depends on evidence and certificates related to his official actions as a president, including social media sites from his official account on Twitter as a president and a certificate from former communications director Hop Hicks.
The trial was held one month before the Supreme Court delivered a prominent ruling that expands the scope of presidential immunity, and Trump’s lawyers have argued that the evidence was not permitted based on the ruling of the Supreme Court.
Trump’s lawyers have tried to use this argument to expel the case before Trump’s rule in January, but the argument was rejected by Judge Juan Merchain, two of the Courts of Appeal in New York, and the Supreme Court.
“Violations of alleged evidence in the trial of President -elect Trump in the state in the regular session of the appeal can be addressed,” the Supreme Court said in a short opinion that is not signed.
For Trump’s criminal defense, he relied on the then -defense lawyers Todd Blanche and Emile Bouv, who are now working as deputy public prosecutor and deputy prosecutor for the main assistant. Earlier this week, Trump announced that he was planning to nominate Bove – who led a cleansing operation from professional law enforcement officials before the Senate confirmed his candidacy to assist in managing the Ministry of Justice to the United States Court of Appeal for the third department.
With the former defense lawyer who is now working for the government, Trump took advantage of this year the elite law firm in Manhattan in Sullivan And Carmwell to deal with his criminal appeal.
Lawyers at the Ministry of Justice also presented a summary in the case this week to say that the case must be heard – and expelled – by a federal court because the condemnation of the jury relied on the evidence covered by presidential immunity.
“In fact, President Trump’s defense takes the form of a new constitutional immunity announced by the Supreme Court after his trial ended, instead of a new law by Congress, anything should be reduced in favor of the president,” the lawyers in the Ministry of Justice have argued in a summary submitted on Tuesday.
The appeal-as well as the ongoing appeal of Trump’s ruling of $ 83 million in the civil Carrrol case and the civil fraud case for half a billion dollars-is on unknown legal principles as Trump has the strength of the presidency in his defense. The prosecutors who followed the cases were described as political motives, and his electoral victory was described last November as a political acquittal.
“The real ruling will be on November 5 by the people,” Trump told reporters to leave the court after his conviction last year. “They know what happened here, and everyone knows what happened here.”
