while this defendant may be unlike any other in american history, we arrived at this trial and ultimately, today, at this verdict in the same manner as every other case that comes through the court room doors. by following the facts and the law, and doing so without fear or favor. many voices out there, the only voice that matters is the voice of the jury and the jury has spoken. manhattan district attorney alvin bragg speaking yesterday following the historic conviction of former president donald trump on all 34 counts in the criminal hush money trial. trump becomes the first former u.s. president in american history to be convicted of a crime. the verdict was read around 5:00 p.m. in a new york city courtroom after the 12 jurors deliberated for roughly 9.5 hours, two days. each of the 34 felony counts associated with a falsified business records pertaining to trump s reimbursement of his former attorney and fixer, michael cohen, for a hush money payment to adult film ac
then the sides will submit their sentencing memorandum. the trump side will unquestionably ask for probation only sentence. the real question for me and what i m curious about is what the d.a.s office asks for. will they say, this is a political decision is asked for probation only. we won and let s call it a victory. will he ask for incarceration? i believe they will ask for an incarceration sentence in this case. the question is what judge merchan will do. there plenty of arguments to be made for probation-only sentence. this is a 71 plus-year-old offender. a nonviolence offense and first-time offender. no guns or drugs or violence involved. and i would make an additional argument and reasonable minds can disagree here but i would say that loss, in the great chuck rosenberg what are you and fraud systems, the single biggest driver of a sentence is the dollar amount of loss and loss is measured in different ways. as a defense attorney i would argue the loss in this case is