With Trump 10 days from inauguration, Judge Juan M. Merchan has indicated he plans a no-penalty sentence called an unconditional discharge and prosecutors aren’t opposing it. That would mean no jail time, no probation and no fines would be imposed, but nothing is final until Friday’s proceeding is done.

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in relation to his Manhattan hush money case, cementing his legacy as America’s first convicted felon to assume the presidency.

Donald Trump‘s sentencing in his New York hush-money trial will proceed on Friday, after the Supreme Court declined the president-elect’s emergency appeal to halt the proceedings. In an order posted this evening,

Judge Juan Merchan, right, sentences President-elect Donald Trump, who appeared remotely via video with his attorney Todd Blanche, left, during Trump's sentencing hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court.,

Donald Trump was sentenced without penalty in the New York hush money case Friday after a symbolic – and historic and unprecedented – hearing following the first felony conviction of a former and soon-to-be sitting president.

President-elect Donald Trump maintained on Jan. 10 his contention that the election-year case which resulted in 34 felony charges was politically motivated and without merit.