What are the appeals and timeline for each of Donald Trump's criminal convictions through November 19, 2025?
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Executive summary
Donald Trump’s only criminal conviction to reach jury trial was the New York “hush-money” conviction — 34 felony counts returned in May 2024 — which he was sentenced to an unconditional discharge on Jan. 10, 2025, and has been the focus of multiple appeals including a state-court appeal and a bid to move the case to federal court [1] [2]. By late 2025 the Georgia election-interference prosecution — long the last remaining criminal case against him — was effectively ended after court removals and prosecutorial replacements led to dismissal in November 2025 [3] [4] [5].
1. The conviction that actually happened — hush-money in New York: what was found and where it stands now
A Manhattan jury convicted Trump in May 2024 on 34 counts tied to falsified business records related to a payment to Stormy Daniels; sentencing later resulted in an unconditional discharge (no prison, probation or fines) on Jan. 10, 2025, and the defense immediately began appeals in state court while also seeking to move or relitigate immunity issues in federal court [1] [2] [6]. Appeals argue the trial was “fatally marred” by evidence that Trump says should have been shielded by the Supreme Court’s subsequent presidential-immunity decision and contend the jury saw protected official-act evidence including testimony from former White House aides [7] [8].
2. Two parallel appellate tracks: erase the conviction vs. change the forum
Trump’s lawyers are pursuing a direct state-court appeal to overturn the conviction and separately urged a federal-court transfer — a strategy revived when a federal appeals panel in November 2025 ordered a lower court to reconsider whether the New York matter belongs in federal court, potentially opening a route to dismissal on presidential-immunity grounds [1] [8]. Appeals judges explicitly “expressed no view” on merits as they sent the forum decision back to the lower judge; that technical routing preserves multiple paths for the defense but does not itself vacate the conviction [1].
3. The immunity question driving appeals and other cases
The Supreme Court’s prior ruling granting “absolute immunity” for certain official acts became a new hinge for post-conviction litigation: Trump’s team says that evidence admitted at trial treated some conduct as private or criminal when it was, they argue, within his official authority — a contention now pressed in briefs arguing the conviction must be set aside [7] [8]. Prosecutors and some judges have pushed back: courts are now sorting whether discrete trial evidence implicates immunity and whether that legal doctrine can void a jury verdict reached before the high court’s decision [7] [8].
4. Timeline highlights through November 19, 2025
Key publicly reported milestones through Nov. 19, 2025: May 30, 2024 — jury conviction on 34 counts (reported background) [6]; Jan. 10, 2025 — unconditional discharge sentence in New York [2]; mid-2025 — post-conviction motions and appeals filed on immunity grounds [8] [2]; Nov. 6, 2025 — federal appeals court ordered reconsideration of whether the New York case should be transferred to federal court, giving new life to a bid to erase the conviction [1] [8]. Available sources do not mention any additional felony convictions beyond the New York case through Nov. 19, 2025 (not found in current reporting).
5. The Georgia case: last-standing prosecution that collapsed
The Georgia racketeering/election-interference prosecution, long considered the gravest state threat because state convictions evade presidential pardon, effectively ended in November 2025 after a series of judicial and prosecutorial developments — Fani Willis’s removal, appointment of Pete Skandalakis and ultimately dismissal — leaving no standing criminal prosecution against Trump in that forum by late November [3] [4] [5]. Reporting notes the Georgia supreme court’s actions and prosecutorial conflicts made the case vulnerable to protracted immunity litigation that would take “months, if not years” to resolve [3].
6. Competing narratives and political context
Trump’s legal team frames appeals as correcting a politicized prosecution and insists immunity and forum rules should overturn the verdict; they call the filings a “powerhouse appeal” and a vindication of presidential immunity arguments [7]. Critics and some commentators see the high-court immunity ruling as broad shelter that could insulate future presidents and argue the litigation reflects an attempt to use procedural doctrines to erase accountability [9] [8]. Sources document both positions: defense filings emphasizing error in admitted evidence and appellate rulings that have so far been procedural, not dispositive on guilt [7] [1] [8].
7. What this means going forward and reporting limits
The immediate legal landscape through Nov. 19, 2025 is procedural: the New York conviction remains on the books but is subject to active appeals and a potential transfer question; the Georgia prosecution has been dismantled by competing court rulings and prosecutorial shifts [1] [3] [5]. Available sources do not report any additional criminal convictions against Trump through that date and do not predict final appellate results; whether the New York conviction will be ultimately vacated depends on ongoing interlocutory rulings about immunity and forum that could take months or years to resolve (not found in current reporting; [1]; p1_s8).