Donald Trump will be placed under arrest on Tuesday and informed that he has been charged with 34 felony counts for falsification of business records, according to a source who has been briefed on the procedures for the arraignment of the former president.
A New York City police arrest report summarizing the charges against Trump will then be prepared and entered into the court system before he is led into a courtroom to be formally arraigned on the charges, none of which are misdemeanours.
But, the source said, Trump will not be put in handcuffs, placed in a jail cell or subjected to a mug shot — typical procedures even for white-collar defendants until a judge has weighed in on pretrial conditions. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, which has been consulting with the Secret Service and New York City court officials, concluded there was no reason to subject the former president to handcuffs or a mug shot.
The stated reason for handcuffing defendants is that they might be a flight risk or a threat to the district attorney or court personnel, neither of which was judged to be relevant to the handling of a former president protected at all times by a phalanx of Secret Service agents.
Under the New York State penal code, a conviction for the Class E felony of falsifying business records can result in a prison term of up to four years. But as a practical matter, that seems extremely unlikely. “No one gets jail time for that as a first offender,” said a New York law enforcement official.
特朗普將被控 34 項重罪，但免於手銬和麵部照片
據一位了解前總統傳訊程序的消息人士透露，唐納德特朗普將於週二被捕，並被告知他被指控犯有 34 項偽造商業記錄的重罪。

一份紐約市警方逮捕報告總結了對特朗普的指控，隨後將準備好並進入法院系統，然後他將被帶到法庭接受正式傳訊，這些指控都不是輕罪。
但是，消息人士稱，在法官對審前條件進行權衡之前，特朗普不會被戴上手銬、關進牢房或接受面部照片——即使是對白領被告也是如此的典型程序。 曼哈頓地區檢察官阿爾文·布拉格 (Alvin Bragg) 的辦公室一直在與特勤局和紐約市法院官員進行磋商，得出的結論是，沒有理由讓前總統戴上手銬或進行大頭照。
給被告戴上手銬的明確原因是，他們可能有逃跑風險或對地方檢察官或法院人員構成威脅，而這兩者都被認為與處理始終受到特勤局方陣保護的前總統無關 代理商。
根據紐約州刑法，對偽造商業記錄的 E 級重罪定罪可導致最高四年的監禁。 但實際上，這似乎極不可能。 “作為初犯，沒有人會因此入獄，”一位紐約執法官員說。
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