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Donald Trump was convicted on 34 counts of first‑degree falsifying business records in New York in May 2024 and has since been appealing and litigating motions that have left the case unresolved; key ...
Courts and commentators disagree: U.S. and some state courts have overturned convictions where only automatic browser caches or thumbnails existed and prosecutors could not show awareness, while other...
Appellate courts in New York have repeatedly affirmed the state’s practice of elevating what would otherwise be misdemeanor falsifying-business-records convictions into felonies when the falsification...
A appellate panel in August 2025 struck down the roughly half‑billion‑dollar civil money judgment that had been imposed on and his companies, finding the financial penalty excessive, while leaving the...
Appellate Division panel on dramatically narrowed the immediate financial and operational consequences of ’s against and related defendants by reducing the bond they were required to post to halt coll...
Courts and commentators treat and not as automatic criminal “” but as forensic facts that must be linked to a defendant’s knowledge, control, or affirmative acts; ’s highest court held passive caching...
’s push to let lawful noncitizen residents vote in municipal elections was rejected by state courts at every level, culminating in a 6–1 decision by that the state constitution “draws a firm line rest...
has issued opinions affirming key parts of Attorney General Letitia James’s against and , including liability findings and injunctive relief; the Attorney General’s office announced it will seek in . ...
A divided five‑judge panel of ’s Appellate Division affirmed key liability findings that and his companies engaged in but struck down the roughly $500–$527 million monetary penalty as excessive and un...
Two discrete sets of filings after April 2024 materially changed how ’s against could be enforced: first, a flurry of appellate orders that stayed key parts of the judgment and preserved the defendant...
Three principal judicial tracks remain to overturn or blunt ’s hush‑money conviction: a state‑court appeal to the (and potentially New York’s highest court), a bid to transfer or remove the case into ...
New York law provides several formal pathways to challenge and potentially overturn a state felony conviction: a direct appeal to an intermediate appellate court, post‑conviction motions (most commonl...
The principal grounds listed by defense teams in the appeal of Donald Trump’s New York falsifying‑business‑records conviction center on alleged jury‑instruction errors (particularly unanimity), claims...
The Trump defendants appealed Judge Arthur Engoron’s February 2024 civil fraud judgment and financial disgorgement order, triggering a stay of some enforcement while appeals proceeded; the New York Ap...
If an intermediate appeal in Donald Trump’s New York felony case is denied, defense lawyers have a bundle of doctrinal and procedural options — continuing appeals within the state system, pushing nove...
Investigators recovered a gun in the basement of a house Franklin shared with his stepmother and son, but the physical and testimonial record tying him to dominion over that space was thin; prosecutor...
New York courts measure disgorgement by attempting to identify and strip away ill-gotten gains—often by estimating the profits attributable to the wrongful conduct or by calculating victims’ losses—an...
The New York Attorney General secured a February 2024 trial judgment that imposed sweeping remedies on Donald Trump, the Trump Organization and several executives — most notably a court-ordered moneta...
Courts are sharply split on whether files found only in a browser cache or temporary folders prove criminal possession of illegal images: many jurisdictions treat cached files as circumstantial eviden...
An appellate panel of New York judges in August 2025 tossed the roughly $350–$450 million monetary disgorgement that Judge Arthur Engoron had ordered against Donald Trump and related defendants, findi...