{"id":29649,"date":"2025-01-03T21:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T21:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/judge-sets-date-for-trump-hush-money-sentencing-but-rules-out-prison-term\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T21:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T21:51:08","slug":"judge-sets-date-for-trump-hush-money-sentencing-but-rules-out-prison-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/judge-sets-date-for-trump-hush-money-sentencing-but-rules-out-prison-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge sets date for Trump hush-money sentencing but rules out prison term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect will be sentenced for his 34 felony convictions on 10 January, Judge Juan Merchan rules<\/p>\n<p>A judge on Friday set President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s sentencing in his hush-money case for 10 January \u2013 little over a week before he is due to return to the White House \u2013 but promised not to jail him.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over Trump\u2019s trial in New York, signaled in a written decision that he would sentence the former and future president to what is known as a conditional discharge, in which a case gets dismissed if a defendant avoids rearrest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/03\/trump-hush-money-trial-sentencing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect will be sentenced for his 34 felony convictions on 10 January, Judge Juan Merchan rules A judge on Friday set President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s sentencing in his hush-money case for 10 January \u2013 little over a week before he is due to return to the White House \u2013 but promised not to jail him. Judge &#8230; <a title=\"Judge sets date for Trump hush-money sentencing but rules out prison term\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/judge-sets-date-for-trump-hush-money-sentencing-but-rules-out-prison-term\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Judge sets date for Trump hush-money sentencing but rules out prison term\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}