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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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Summer Zervos sued Donald Trump in January 2017 alleging he groped her in 2007 and later defamed her by calling her a liar; New York courts allowed her defamation suit to proceed while Trump was in of...
A flurry of legal filings and appellate rulings after the New York Court of Appeals’ work on the Trump hush-money matter prompted sharply divergent reactions from prosecutors, defense lawyers and fede...
The New York Court of Appeals did not issue a decision that any Trump-related criminal convictions in 2024 or 2025; the criminal conviction from the Manhattan case remained subject to appellate procee...
The available materials in the provided dataset show . The documents instead record that Trump’s legal team filed appeals contesting the conviction in late October 2025 and that earlier 2024 court fil...