Former President Donald Trump is challenging the guilty verdict in his New York criminal trial after the Supreme Court ruled that he is partially immune from prosecution, according to news sources.
Trump’s lawyers sent a letter to Judge Juan Merchan which challenged the verdict based on the Supreme Court’s recent ruling, and asked the judge to delay Trump’s sentencing on July 11 while he considers their request, according to the Associated Press, CNN and WABC-TV.
In the letter, his lawyers argued that there was evidence provided by prosecutors in the trial that involved Trump’s official presidential acts and should not have been used to make the case, per the outlets.
Trump’s lawyers and representatives did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
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This comes after the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Trump is immune from being charged for “official” presidential acts, though he is not immune from prosecution for “unofficial” actions he took, or anything he did before and after his presidential term.
“The President enjoys no immunity for his unofficial acts, and not everything the President does is official,” the court’s syllabus reads. “But under our system of separated powers, the President may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for his official acts.”
This means that some of Trump’s federal Jan. 6 charges, which centered around actions he took in his official capacity as president, may need to be dropped or reworked, according to the Supreme Court.
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The Supreme Court’s ruling does not seem to apply to Trump’s New York case on the whole, which focused on Trump’s actions as a presidential candidate and his personal finances during his first year in office.
He was convicted of 34 felony counts in May, when a Manhattan jury sided with prosecutors in determining that Trump falsified business records to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election.
The former president has been indicted in three other criminal cases, which deal with his alleged election subversion attempts after he lost to Joe Biden in 2020, and his handling of classified documents after leaving the White House.
Those cases are unlikely to go to trial before the November election following a series of delays prompted by Trump’s legal team.
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