while this defendant may be unlike any other in american history, we arrived at this trial and ultimately, today, at this verdict in the same manner as every other case that comes through the court room doors. by following the facts and the law, and doing so without fear or favor. many voices out there, the only voice that matters is the voice of the jury and the jury has spoken. manhattan district attorney alvin bragg speaking yesterday following the historic conviction of former president donald trump on all 34 counts in the criminal hush money trial. trump becomes the first former u.s. president in american history to be convicted of a crime. the verdict was read around 5:00 p.m. in a new york city courtroom after the 12 jurors deliberated for roughly 9.5 hours, two days. each of the 34 felony counts associated with a falsified business records pertaining to trump s reimbursement of his former attorney and fixer, michael cohen, for a hush money payment to adult film ac
a baseball game. it doesn t make a lot of sense to me. nevertheless, as danny articulated earlier, this is a first-time, nonviolent offender. and typically in new york state courts, a first-time, nonviolent offenders does not get a jail sentence. that said, continuing to yell at the umpire and denigrate the alpine the courts and the jurors and the system and the prosecutors is just a bad strategy. and one thing that joses look for at sentencing is what the defendant has to say because all defendants have a chance to speak at sentencing. we call it allocution and, you know, i sit there and listen as a prosecutor to whether or not the defendant is remorseful, whether he or she apologizes, whether he or she takes responsibility. and i think mr. trump is constitutionally incapable of doing that. and so, might that be determinative here?