Tanisha Palvia Quoted in Financial Times article: What next for Donald Trump after his guilty verdict?

Tanisha Palvia, MVA Litigation Member, was quoted in the Financial Times article titled, “What next for Donald Trump after his guilty verdict?” which was published on May 30.

A number of other punishments, including probation and financial penalties, could be meted out by Justice Juan Merchan. When selecting the appropriate sanction, Merchan might also “take into account the defendant’s behaviour throughout the course of the trial”, according to former Manhattan prosecutor Tanisha Palvia, and the fact that he violated a court-imposed gag order several times by attacking witnesses and jurors.

Trump’s team may also focus on a potential weakness in the prosecutors’ case: allowing jurors to pick from three potential underlying crimes that the former president allegedly conspired to cover up, without having to disclose which one, Palvia said. “If an appellate court were to hold that one of those underlying theories — just one — did not actually constitute a culpable offence . . . then the whole verdict could fall,” she said.

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