Fascinating!-----The Trump sentencing: Curtain to fall on Merchan’s Hamlet on the Hudson - Jonathan Turley

At 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 10, 2025, the curtain will fall on the longest performance of “Hamlet” in history. - Jonathan Turley 

Acting Justice Juan Merchan will finally decide whether “to be or not to be” the judge to sentence Trump to jail. 

• (Spoiler alert: He appears set to avoid a jail sentence and likely reversal.)

...But the whole point of a trophy-kill case is the trophy itself. 

Merchan will not disappoint. 

While indicating that he is inclined to a sentence without jail or probation, he will finalize the conviction of Trump just 10 days before his inauguration. 

In so doing, he will formally label the president-elect a convicted felon...