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Wayne Unger, Assistant Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University

Trump gets an ‘unconditional discharge’ in hush money conviction − a constitutional law expert explains what that means

A judge imposed an unusual sentence on President-elect Donald Trump in his criminal hush money case. boonchai wedmakawand/Getty Images

Donald Trump is now a convicted felon, and will be the first president of the United States with a felony conviction.

On Jan. 10, 2025, Justice Juan Merchan, who presided over the trial in a New York state court, sentenced Trump to an unconditional discharge for all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. In his statement to the court, Trump maintained the point he had made throughout the prosecution, that the whole case was a political witch hunt.

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