唐纳德·特朗普可能会被判非监禁刑——或者他的判决可能会被推迟到他离任后——代替他的刑期刑事封口费定罪被完全驳回后，曼哈顿地方检察官·阿尔文·布拉格在周二公开的法庭文件中辩解道。
地方检察官敦促纽约法官胡安·马科姆拒绝特朗普的要求推翻陪审团的裁决，并以总统豁免权为由驳回案件，认为这一请求“远远超出了保护总统职位的必要范围。”
“人民承认有序的行政过渡和和平移交权力的重要性，但这些利益并不要求采取特殊措施，减少对现有刑事案件的审后动议做法，”文件称。
文件提到了特朗普获得无条件释放的可能性，即在判决时无条件释放，以反驳特朗普关于总统豁免权的论点，其中许多论点都预先假定他会被监禁。
布拉格指出，法官马尔康“根本不需要判处监禁”，因为特朗普没有前科，只被判犯有E级重罪。
“因此，法院可以得出结论，总统豁免权虽然不需要被驳回，但在这些情况下需要非监禁判决，”该文件称。“对可用判决范围的这种宪法限制将进一步减少对被告总统决策的任何影响，而不会走得太远，以至于完全放弃起诉书和陪审团裁决。”
特朗普是被判有罪今年5月，他面临34项伪造商业记录的重罪指控，这些记录与封口费向成人电影女演员斯托米·丹尼尔斯支付的款项有关，以提高他在2016年总统大选中的选举前景。
他的判决已经被推迟了三次，他现在正在争取完全撤销这个案件，因为他准备在11月连任后重返白宫。
特朗普的律师辩称，该案应该被驳回，因为特朗普作为当选总统，在过渡阶段免受起诉——布拉格在他的文件中否认了这一说法。
“在被告就职之前，现在没有理由获得这种救济，因为当选总统豁免权不存在，”布拉格的文件说。“即使在就职典礼后，被告作为现任总统的临时豁免权仍然不能证明放弃陪审团一致的有罪判决和清除刑事诉讼中已经完成的阶段的极端补救措施是合理的。”
检察官建议要么推迟判决，直到特朗普离任，要么终止诉讼程序，“并注明陪审团的裁决尚未撤销，起诉书也没有被驳回。”
该文件还批评特朗普的律师重复了法院已经拒绝的论点，并过度解读了针对在任总统的案件的禁令，认为特朗普“笼统的论点无视最高法院和司法部法律顾问办公室(OLC)对总统豁免权的谨慎限制。”
“被告要求的救济将远远超出保护总统职位所必需的范围，并将破坏维护陪审团一致裁决和维护法治的令人信服的公共利益，”文件称。
特朗普联邦选举干涉案被上个月被开除了由于司法部的长期政策禁止起诉在任总统，一家联邦上诉法院基于同样的政策，从政府正在进行的特别顾问杰克·史密斯机密文件案上诉中撤销了川普。
Manhattan DA suggests non-prison sentence for Trump in hush money case
Donald Trump could receive a non-incarceratory sentence -- or his sentencing could be delayed until he leaves office -- in lieu of hiscriminal hush money convictionbeing dismissed entirely, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg argued in a court filing unsealed Tuesday.
The district attorney urged New York Judge Juan Merchan toreject Trump's requestto throw out the jury's verdict and dismiss the case on the grounds of presidential immunity, arguing the request goes "well beyond what is necessary to protect the presidency."
"The People acknowledge the importance of an orderly executive transition and the peaceful transfer of power, but those interests do not require the extraordinary step of abating post-trial motion practice in a pre-existing criminal case," the filing said.
The filing mentioned the possibility of Trump receiving an unconditional discharge -- i.e., being released at sentencing with no conditions -- to push back on Trump's arguments about presidential immunity, many of which presuppose he would receive an incarcerated sentence.
Bragg noted that Judge Merchan "is not required to impose a sentence of incarceration at all" because Trump has no prior criminal history and was only convicted of Class E felonies.
"The Court could therefore conclude that presidential immunity, while not requiring dismissal, nonetheless would require a non-incarceratory sentence in these circumstances," the filing said. "Such a constitutional limitation on the range of available sentences would further diminish any impact on defendant's presidential decisionmaking without going so far as to discard the indictment and jury verdict altogether."
Trump wasfound guiltyin May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in order to boost his electoral prospects in the 2016 presidential election.
His sentencing has been delayed three times and he is now pushing to have the case dismissed entirely as he prepares to return to the White House following his reelection in November.
Trump's lawyers had argued that the case should be tossed because Trump, as president-elect, is immune from prosecution during the transition phase -- a claim Bragg rejected in his filing.
"There are no grounds for such relief now, prior to defendant's inauguration, because President-elect immunity does not exist," Bragg's filing said. "And even after the inauguration, defendant's temporary immunity as the sitting President will still not justify the extreme remedy of discarding the jury's unanimous guilty verdict and wiping out the already-completed phases of this criminal proceeding."
Prosecutors suggested either delaying sentencing until Trump leaves office, or terminating the proceedings "with a notation that the jury verdict has not been vacated and the indictment has not been dismissed."
The filing also criticized Trump's lawyers for rehashing arguments that the court has already rejected and over-interpreting the prohibition on cases against a sitting president, arguing that Trump's "sweeping argument disregard the careful limits that the Supreme Court and the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) have placed on presidential immunity."
"Defendant's requested relief would go well beyond what is necessary to protect the presidency and would subvert the compelling public interest in preserving the jury's unanimous verdict and upholding the rule of law," the filing said.
Trump's federal election interference case wasthrown out last monthdue to the Justice Department's standing policy prohibiting the prosecution of a sitting president, and a federal appeals court dropped Trump from the government's ongoing appeal of special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents case based on the same policy.
