Acting State Supreme Court Justice Juan M. Merchan must either dismiss President-elect Donald Trump’s business records case conviction or allow it to be appealed rather than hang in limbo during the next four years, Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax on Sunday.

Instead, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who has said his office is willing to delay sentencing until Trump is out of office, wants to “hold the sentence over his head,” Dershowitz told Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.”

This way, “every time that President Trump travels abroad, he is the president who has a jury conviction hanging over him,” said Dershowitz.

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