Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg urges judge not to overturn Trump conviction
A Supreme Court ruling finding Donald Trump had immunity for official acts while president doesn't impact his hush money conviction in New York, state prosecutors argued.
A Supreme Court decision on Donald Trump’s immunity for “official acts” while he was president has no bearing on his conviction on charges of falsifying business records in New York, state prosecutors argued in a filing made public Thursday.
In a filing arguing against Trump’s bid to dismiss the indictment and guilty verdict on 34 felony counts, prosecutors from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office said the Supreme Court’s ruling in the federal election interference case against Trump “has nothing to say about defendant’s conviction” in its case.
“At issue in the Supreme Court’s decision was whether defendant could be federally prosecuted ‘for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office.’ The criminal charges here, by contrast, exclusively stem from defendant’s ‘unofficial acts’ — conduct for which ‘there is no immunity,’” the DA’s filing said.
Further, “the evidence that he claims is affected by the Supreme Court’s ruling constitutes only a sliver of the mountains of testimony and documentary proof that the jury considered in finding him guilty of all 34 felony charges beyond a reasonable doubt,” the DA argued.
Attorneys for the former president argued earlier this month that the high court’s decision, issued July 1, had implications for his conviction in the weekslong hush money trial, citing several examples of what they described as “impermissible official-acts evidence” introduced at trial that under the Supreme Court’s new ruling cannot be introduced because they touched on “core” presidential duties.
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