Alvin Bragg Urges Judge To Adopt ‘Innovative’ Approach to Trump’s Hush Money Convictions — ‘Abatement-by-Death’

Such a strategy could hold open the door to sentencing Trump in 2029.

AP/Mary Altaffer, file
District Attorney Alvin Bragg on September 13, 2023, at New York. AP/Mary Altaffer, file

Judge Juan Merchan could, any day now, declare President-elect  Trump effectively dead — at least in respect of his 34 hush money convictions in New York. That would mean that the case could be frozen for four years — the pendency of Trump’s second term — until there is what might be called a Lazarus moment.

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