Trump bid to axe sentencing denied by New York's highest court, leaving Supreme Court as last hope

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Trump wants "to take the extraordinary step of intervening in a pending state criminal trial to prevent the scheduled sentencing from taking place -- before final judgment has been entered by the trial court, and before any direct appellate review of defendant's conviction.
42% : The judge presiding over the case, Juan Merchan, denied his request for a stay on Monday, and the New York state Appellate Division, a mid-level appeals court, denied Trump's bid to halt the sentencing on Tuesday. Merchan wrote in a decision last week that he intends to sentence Trump to an unconditional discharge, a type of sentence that would uphold the conviction but would not carry other penalties.
35% : " The denial was the third such refusal for Trump this week, but he still has a motion to block the proceeding that's pending in the Supreme Court.
27% : Trump had denied actress Stormy Daniels' account of the sexual encounter the two had.

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