Something all convicted felons are supposed to do. a chance to make a good impression and explain why they deserve a lighter punishment. trump will likely have to tell her probation officer he has three other active indictments. based on the interview and things like his propensity to reoffend, the probation officer will write a presentence report with the recommendation in anticipation of the sentencing hearing scheduled for july 11. prison or jail sentence for felony falsification of business records which is been convicted of is not common. we should be clear. citing his own research, and the most serious of these cases, about 10% of the total incarceration was imposed. that doesn t mean in 2015, new york construction executive pleaded guilty to one count of falsifying records as part of a bribery scheme.
IT is not without absolute glee that the first news item I read on Friday morning was that the loathsome former president of the United States had been convicted in his New York City trial for falsifying business records as part of an organized scheme to bury unflattering news stories about him during his 2016 campaign for the presidency. Given how the trial had proceeded over the past six weeks, an acquittal by the 12-person jury would have been incredibly shocking, but that did not make the anticipated outcome any less delightful. It was perhaps even more so because it was as forceful a decision as the jury could possibly make it: conviction on all 34 felony counts being tried and delivered in less than two days, or about half the time even the most optimistic legal experts expected jury deliberations to take.
You know, if you were on the prosecutors team, how would you craft your argument well, if already seen a foreshadowing of what the prosecutors are going to do. i was in court all week and they kicked off the case by arguing that this is an important election interference matter, that they structured a set of evidentiary arguments to preview what i think we will see when i ll be back there on monday, namely, that voters were deceived by the payment to stormy daniels, that that was done to grasp presidential power to be elected. and then that there was a cover up and in fact, all those elements are in the technical building blocks for this felony falsification of business records because you need to have a criminal intent to
Well a norm eisen opening statements are now set for monday morning, as you know, if you were on the prosecutors team how would you craft your argument? well, we ve already seen a foreshadowing of what the prosecutors are going to do. i was in court all week and they kicked off the case by arguing that this is an important election interference matter that they structured a set of evidentiary arguments to preview what i think we will see when i ll be back there on monday, namely that voters were deceived by the payment to stormy daniels, that that was done to grasp presidential power to be elected. and then that there was a cover up and in fact, all those elements are in the technical building blocks for this felony falsification of business
Violation as a predicate they won t be prosecuting it so much they kind of will. because they re going to be using it to bump up what would ordinarily be a misdemeanor to a felony falsification of records is a default misdemeanor. it s document heavy. we have seen the checks, the agreements between david dennison and patty peterson or whatever the phony names were. that s probably easier to make the misdemeanor. to bump it up to a felony, they need it to be in furtherance or conceal some additional crime. if it s a federal election law violation, then it s going to be an interesting legal issue whether or not new york can even use that, whether or not they have to prove it or whether or not they can prove it because it is federal law expect the defense to move to even throw that out. if they do, if all those felony