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David Smith and Hugo Lowell in Washington

Judge sets date for Trump hush-money sentencing but rules out prison term

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Donald Trump speaks in Phoenix, Arizona, on 22 December 2024. Photograph: Cheney Orr/Reuters

A judge on Friday set Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush-money case for 10 January – little over a week before he is due to return to the White House – but promised not to jail him.

Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over Trump’s trial in New York, denied the president-elect’s motion to dismiss the case due to his election victory in November. He said Trump is expected to appear for sentencing either in-person or virtually.

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