Unconditional discharge is when a defendant is convicted without punishments such as imprisonment, a fine, or probation supervision, according to CaseText by Thomson Reuters.

On Jan. 10, 2025, Justice Juan Merchan, who presided over the trial in a New York state court, sentenced Trump to an unconditional discharge for all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records ...

An unconditional discharge essentially means “the case is over, the conviction stands, and no further conditions attach,” Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. attorney and law professor at the ...

On Friday, Justice Juan M. Merchan sentenced Donald J. Trump to an unconditional discharge, a rare and lenient sentence in New York state courts that still cements Mr. Trump’s status as a felon ...

Justice Juan Merchan sentenced President-elect Donald Trump to an unconditional discharge on Friday. The measure is a rare and lenient sentence in the New York state court system that still means ...

The New York judge who presided over Donald Trump’s hush money case on Friday sentenced the president-elect to an “unconditional discharge,” meaning he is now a convicted felon in the eyes ...

President-elect Donald Trump received a historic sentence on Friday, Jan. 10, from New York Judge Juan Merchan, dodging jail time and instead getting 'unconditional discharge' for his 34 felony ...

The unconditional discharge doesn’t mean Donald Trump’s conviction was overturned or erased. He was still found guilty of a felony, and the conviction remains on his record.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday, July 1, that former President Joe Biden wanted to see him behind bars, ...

President-elect Donald Trump received an unconditional discharge Friday in the Manhattan “hush money” case related to his 2016 presidential bid. The sentencing, which releases him from ...

Here's what is means when a court grants an unconditional discharge, as happened with President-elect Donald Trump's hush money case Jan. 10.