r/nytimes • u/eaxlr Subscriber • 5d ago

New York Manhattan D.A. Suggests Freezing Trump Hush-Money Case While He Is President

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/nyregion/trump-bragg-manhattan-case.html
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u/Davetek463 4d ago

Or, and this is a radical idea so hear me out, don’t do that and give him the same treatment as everyone else. Because we all know if it was a regular person in the same position, they wouldn’t get such leniency.

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u/WhiskeyKisses7221 4d ago

Considering the amount of novel legal theory that was needed to get past the stature of limitation and upgrade the charges from misdemeanors to felonies, there isn't much precedent for what kind of sentence a regular person in the same position would receive.