As former President Donald Trump heads toward sentencing on July 11, several factors are at play as an appeal is all but sure.
Appeals, which are an uphill slog, also take time.
“There is a distinct possibility that there may be some stay of the sentence,” said Thomas Cranmer, Principal at Miller Canfield. “The Court of Appeals might be asked to intervene on the theory that if he is sentenced on July 11 what he might be given would actually be served before the appeal could be heard.”
With polling suggesting the race between the current and former president is tight here there’s no question the verdict galvanizes Trump’s base of support in Michigan but what about those voters who are less than charmed with both major party candidates.
“I can’t imagine this is going to cut Trump’s way,” said University of Michigan political science professor Dr. Ken Kollman.
In a state where it certainly appears each of the candidates is going to need every last vote to win, Kollman likens the situation to a tie ballgame.
“The little things at the end are going to matter this is the first one of these events and I think in a tied election like this, I think this is a very momentous event that happened today,” Kollman said.