(FixThisNation.com) – Trump’s attorneys want his guilty verdict in his hush money trial set aside.
On Thursday, former President Donald Trump’s lawyers claimed Manhattan prosecutors had improperly relied on evidence of official presidential acts to secure Trump’s conviction and are requesting Trump’s guilty verdict be set aside because of the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity.
After SCOTUS’s ruling that Presidents couldn’t face prosecution over official acts, Judge Juan Merchan delayed Trump’s sentencing by two months.
The delay was prompted by Trump’s attorneys arguing the SCOTUS ruling on July 1 meant prosecutors couldn’t rely on evidence from Trump’s time in the Oval Office.
They’ve also asserted the 12-person jury’s guilty verdict would not stand.
Merchan revealed he would decide whether their argument was valid on September 6, and if the conviction were upheld, would conduct sentencing on September 13, seven weeks before the election.
Now, Trump’s lawyers are turning to prosecutors with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, giving them until July 24 to respond to their request despite prosecutors calling the argument meritless.
Trump’s lawyers argue evidence in the hush money trial, including a conversation Trump had with former White House aide Hope Hicks in 2018 and a tweet he made about Daniels and Cohen in the same year, was improper and tainted the verdict.
Trump was found guilty in a Manhattan courtroom on May 30 of falsifying business records to conceal a $130,000 hush money payment to adult actress Stormy Daniels.
Trump’s lawyers are also calling for the criminal case into his alleged mishandling of classified documents to be paused.
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