The New York judge who oversaw that of Donald Trump The silent trial in Manhattan is considering dropping his felony convictions after the former president won Tuesday’s election, CNN reported Wednesday.

Asset was sentenced in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to payments made to a former porn star Stormy Daniels.

The country’s 45th president is expected to be sentenced in this case on November 26, but whether the hearing will take place is now decided by the judge. Juan Merchan.

CNN Senior Legal Correspondent Paula Reid reported Wednesday evening that Merchan would give himself until next week to decide whether dropping the convictions was appropriate.

During CNN’s ongoing coverage of the 2024 election, the network’s anchor Jake Tapper hosted Reid to discuss Trump’s criminal case in New York. She reported:

I’m told his legal team will try to make sure a conviction never happens. As we know, their usual strategy is always to try to delay things. But here they are going to argue to the judge that the sentencing should never happen because now that Trump is president-elect, they will argue that he is entitled to the same constitutional protections as a sitting president and that he should be protected state actors and in this case, state prosecutors and the judge in this case, Judge Juan Merchan.

He is given until November 12 to decide whether the conviction against Trump should be overturned based on the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on immunity. If he rejects the conviction, there will be no conviction. But if this condemnation continues, that’s the argument Team Trump is going to make.

Trump’s two federal cases should also be dropped while the special counsel Jack Smith slows them down. The former president previously sworn to fire Smith if he won the election. As for Trump’s RICO case in Georgia, CNN reported:

There is no clear answer as to whether a state-level prosecutor, such as (Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis), can prosecute a sitting president. Trump’s victory now forces Willis to confront this constitutional question in addition to existing legal issues that already cast uncertainty over the future of the Georgia case.

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