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Will Trump Get Jail Time? We Looked at Similar Cases to Find Out. [1]

['Kate Christobek', 'Ben Protess', 'William K. Rashbaum']

Date: 2024-10-08

In November, after voters decide whether to return Donald J. Trump to the White House, the judge who oversaw his criminal trial could send him to jail.

And despite Mr. Trump’s political status, the judge has ample grounds to do so, a New York Times examination of dozens of similar cases shows.

The former president’s unruly behavior at the New York trial makes him a candidate for jail time, as does his felony crime of falsifying business records: Over the past decade in Manhattan, more than a third of these convictions resulted in defendants spending time behind bars, The Times’s examination found. Across New York State, the proportion is even higher — about 42 percent of those convictions led to jail or prison time.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/nyregion/donald-trump-merchan-sentencing-jail.html

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