Former President Donald Trump is asking a federal appeals court in New York to stay his sentencing in his business records conviction until it hears legal arguments in full over whether the case should be moved to federal court.
Sentencing in the case could “lead to incarceration or other unacceptable liberty restrictions being imposed on the leading candidate in the forthcoming presidential election,” the GOP nominee’s attorneys argue in their filing, reports Newsweek on Friday.
New York federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein has rejected Trump’s push to transfer the case twice.
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