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Alvin Hellerstein

American judge

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Nov 26, 2025
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Trump felony counts overturned

A Manhattan jury convicted Donald Trump in May 2024 on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records tied to a hush‑money payment; he was later given an unconditional discharge on January 10, 2025, ...

Jan 23, 2026
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Which judges oversaw Donald Trump's New York state criminal trial and what were their key rulings?

state criminal case against was presided over at trial by Justice , whose courtroom decisions shaped pretrial immunity fights, gag and contempt orders, and the timing of sentencing; parallel federal a...

Jan 20, 2026
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What is the current status of Trump’s New York hush‑money conviction appeals and motions?

The hush‑money conviction remains under active challenge on multiple fronts: an appeals panel recently revived Trump’s bid to move the case from state to federal court and ordered a lower court to re-...

Nov 16, 2025

Current status of Trump's 34 convictions appeal

A federal appeals panel on Nov. 6, 2025 revived part of President Trump’s bid to erase his May 2024, 34-count New York conviction by ordering a district judge to reconsider whether aspects of the case...

Jan 9, 2026

were 12 judges just arrested for colluding with the cartels

There is no evidence in the provided reporting that “12 judges” were arrested for colluding with cartels; the major contemporaneous stories detail the capture and U.S. indictment of Venezuelan Preside...

Dec 10, 2025

Which court is handling Trump’s appeal of the 34-count conviction and who is the panel of judges?

Donald Trump has appealed his 34‑count New York conviction to New York’s Appellate Division, First Department — a state intermediate appellate court — and separately pressed federal routes seeking tra...

Jan 7, 2026

How have courts in the U.S. treated the evidentiary claims in the Maduro indictments so far?

U.S. courts have so far treated the evidentiary claims in the Maduro indictments as the beginning of a standard, document-driven federal prosecution rather than a finished proof — accepting the indict...

Jan 4, 2026

WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE JUDGE WHO AURTHORIZED THE MADURO CAPTURE

The reporting does not identify any judge who "authorized the Maduro capture"; available sources uniformly describe the operation as a U.S. executive-branch military and intelligence action ordered by...

Dec 19, 2025

Which courts have heard appeals of Trump's felony cases and what were their rulings?

Multiple appellate tribunals — state and federal — have already weighed in on Donald Trump’s post‑conviction and related litigation, producing mixed outcomes: federal appeals judges in the Second Circ...

Nov 28, 2025

Could a higher court still overturn rulings that rejected Trump’s presidential immunity defenses?

A federal appeals panel has revived President Trump’s bid to have his New York “hush-money” conviction reviewed in federal court, saying a district judge must reconsider whether evidence tied to his o...

Nov 26, 2025

Which judges and court locations are handling each of Trump's ongoing cases and what are their next scheduled milestones?

Coverage in the provided sources does not offer a complete, single list answering “which judges and court locations are handling each of President Trump’s ongoing cases and their next scheduled milest...

Nov 25, 2025

How do appeals and post-trial motions affect the enforcement and sentencing of Trump's convictions?

Appeals and post-trial motions can pause, reshape or potentially erase enforcement and sentencing outcomes in President Trump’s New York hush‑money conviction: his lawyers have asked New York’s interm...

Nov 20, 2025

How many of Trump's convictions have been vacated by judges and what were the legal reasons?

Available sources show that as of late 2025 no judge has publicly “vacated” any of former President Donald Trump’s criminal convictions; instead, his legal teams have won or sought courtroom rulings t...

Nov 19, 2025

How have federal and state courts handled appeals of Donald Trump's convictions so far?

Federal and state appeals involving Donald Trump have moved in multiple forums: his criminal hush‑money conviction in Manhattan is being revisited on questions of presidential‑act immunity by a federa...