President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced in the bookkeeping case brought against him by Alvin Bragg, the elected Democratic district attorney of Manhattan. The sentence was effectively nothing.

Republicans used to criticize courts for “legislating from the bench,” and Chief Justice John Roberts claimed at his confirmation hearing that courts should just call balls and strikes.

Accordingly, when the trial court imposes a sentence of unconditional discharge, the defendant is released without imprisonment, probation supervision or conditions. A sentence of unconditional ...

A third New York jury convicted Trump of fraud for inflating the value of his real estate holdings, not an uncommon practice ...

The sentence of unconditional discharge did accomplish one thing. It formalized Trump's guilty verdict, meaning that Trump is now officially a convicted felon.

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President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced last week in the bookkeeping case brought against him by Alvin Bragg, the elected ...

Donald Trump was found guilty by a New York county jury of 34 counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree — a class E felony under ...

Donald Trump got the sentence he deserved. Embittered Judge Juan Merchan, sitting in a Manhattan courtroom, handed the president-elect an unconditional discharge on his 34 felony convictions related ...

Cohen, a critic of Trump's, explained on Friday that he couldn't find a previous instance of unconditional discharge being given as a sentence in a ChatGPT search. "I looked it up and I was unable ...