‘The Court cannot schedule the trial’: Trump lawyers point to Passover for longer delay of hush-money case even after Manhattan DA agreed to one-month interruption

Alvin Bragg, Donald Trump

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II), Donald Trump (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Donald Trump’s defense lawyers immediately used the U.S. Supreme Court’s immunity decision on Monday to launch a challenge of the former president’s guilty verdicts on 34 felony counts in Manhattan — and now it seems his July 11 sentencing hearing won’t take place.

A Tuesday letter from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) office told Acting New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan that the prosecution won’t oppose a sentencing delay to give themselves more time to rebut Trump’s arguments and, by extension, give the judge more time to consider the issue thoroughly.

“[D]efendant requested until July 10, 2024 to submit a memorandum of law in support” of a motion to set aside the verdict, prosecutors said. “While defendant’s letter states that he does ‘not object to an adjournment of the July 11, 2024 sentencing date,’ his request to file moving papers on July 10 is necessarily a request to adjourn the sentencing hearing […] pending resolution of the motion.”

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