I’m from the other side of the pond, what does this mean? I’m having a blast with all the Trump memes but this one’s too specific for me :(
Before sentencing a judge is given a report on the felon's behavior, likelihood to recommit crimes, and general overview of a subjects temperament.
Trumps is going to be amazing.
It's important to note that the trial was just about what he did in reference to these specific crimes.
This involves everything before during and after the trial.
Can they include the civil court's finding that he is a rapist or does that not meet the required evidentiary standard?
A probation officer working for the court will prepare a report on the defendant’s background, including any mitigating circumstances, criminal history, behavior, etc that would impact the sentencing. Trump’s gag order violations are likely going to be used to justify stricter sentencing.
Fellow right-side-of-the-ponder here (so take with a heap of salt). So basically both sides present mitigations ("my client had a clean record until now", "the defendant was found liable for SA", sort of thing). These may change the outcome of the sentencing, including specific dates for any period of incarceration.
There will also be part of this given over to why they defendant shouldn't be found liable for also violating his gag order (very similar to the ones before, but this one is now he is a felon). And if the defense counsel can't explain why he did that (which is pretty much indefensible) then he can be both found liable for the breach and have it impact his potential sentence.
I am not a lawyer, I am not American, this is just what I understand, until someone better comes along to correct me.
Very good.
On one hand the report could say the convict has always been a good person until now.
Or………
I could say the convict has spent the last 6 months threatening the judge’s daughter wracking up 9 contempts of court. The contempt cannot affect the sentence, but it will surely speak to character for a parole of that unaffected sentence.
It means that all the information avaliable about his actions will be collected the judge will consider that information seriously as a part of the punishment.
That's nothing, I'm waiting for when Trump gets the chance to say something on the record at sentencing
I guarantee that up to this point his lawyers have been keeping a cork in his yap hole but if he's actually required to give a statement we could see some real shit.
This is Trump’s last chance to bait the judge into doing something rash that would help on appeal.
Only when Trump is the defendant would anyone consider penalizing over a dozen violations that are each individually bad enough to get normal people jailed for contempt of court "rash".
Enough with the absurd levels of overcautiousness at the expense of seeking anything that even remotely resembles justice already!
Yeah, not to mention the Judge can take into consideration whether or not the criminal expressed remorse for their actions. Trump left the courtroom after being handed 34 guilty verdicts, called the trial a sham, and said the result didn't matter because the "real" result was going to be Nov. 5th.
The Judge already determined that fines do not work on Trump and that he is flippant about his prospects of seeing actual punishment in regards to this case. He deserves the maximum prison sentence.
More like a crack pipe
What's two scoops? Is it 2 scoops of ice cream because biden gets one or something?
I think it's a reference to a really old commercial for cereal. A brand selling bran flakes made a big deal that each box had two scoops of raisins in it. "Two scoops of raisins in Kellogg's Raisin Bran"
That's kinda odd unless there's some kind of metric scoop measure - it's meaningless. Gotta love marketing people
