Manhattan prosecutors urge judge to uphold Trump's conviction in "hush money" case
CBSN
New York prosecutors urged a Manhattan judge to uphold Donald Trump's criminal conviction, saying a recent Supreme Court decision has little bearing on a unanimous jury's decision finding the former president guilty of falsifying records.
In a 69-page memo filed Wednesday and made public Thursday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and prosecutors from his office called Trump's effort "meritless," writing that the Supreme Court's decision "has no bearing on this prosecution and would not support [vacating] the jury's unanimous verdict."
Sentencing in the case, initially scheduled for July 11, was delayed after Trump's lawyers claimed a recent Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity supported their claim that Trump's conviction should be tossed. They said certain evidence and testimony should have been withheld from the jury, because they were related to protected official acts of the presidency.
