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Lawyers for Donald Trump have asked a New York judge to delay the president-elect’s Friday sentencing in his case on charges related to falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments, the Associated Press reports.

Judge Juan Merchan last week scheduled Trump’s sentencing for 10 January but signaled he was unlikely to send him to jail. The president-elect was convicted last year on 34 charges related to concealing a payment to an adult film actor ahead of his 2016 election victory.

Trump’s lawyers said they plan to ask a state appeals court to reverse Judge Juan M. Merchan’s decision last week, which set the case for sentencing on Friday — little over a week before he’s sworn in for his second term.

In a pair of rulings in recent weeks, Merchan rejected Trump’s bid to throw out the verdict and dismiss the indictment on presidential immunity grounds and because of his impending return to the White House.