The decision to indefinitely adjourn next week's sentencing date comes several days after both lawyers agreed that a stay would help sort out unprecedented legal questions.

Trump was ultimately convicted this past spring on 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to cover up a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels. But he successfully leveraged the charges against him in New York and several other jurisdictions as outlaw branding—his Georgia mug shot became a defining image of his campaign—and in winning the 2024 election,