ANDREW McCARTHY: Anti-Trump judge stumbles into the right decision in delaying sentencing
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Legal analyst Andrew McCarthy says New York Judge Juan Merchan had little choice but to delay former President Trump's sentencing. But the judge's explanation for why he did it made no sense and continued his pattern of bias against Trump.
Andrew C. McCarthy serves as a FOX News contributor and is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and a contributing editor of National Review. Follow him on Twitter @andrewcmccarthy
While Trump has been found guilty of 34 felony charges, the business-records offense is a non-violent crime that is normally a misdemeanor in New York (and normally not charged at all by Manhattan’s paragon progressive prosecutor, Alvin Bragg). And while 34 counts sounds impressive, the number is high only because Bragg unethically parsed what should have been no more than a handful of counts by charging each scrap of paper as a separate four-year felony – aggregating to 136 years of potential imprisonment!
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