Whereas it was unclear why Trump was permitted to attend his pre-sentencing listening to through Zoom, insiders defined that permitting the ex-president to seem nearly “is likely to be higher” for Trump’s probation officer.
“You possibly can argue that Trump’s look on the probation workplace on the tenth ground of the Prison Court docket Constructing in Manhattan the place his trial happened, with Secret Service and press following him, can be very disruptive to the probation workplace and unfair to different defendants who may not wish to be recognized,” Martin Horn, who beforehand served as commissioner of the New York Metropolis Division of Corrections and Probation, defined on Monday.
“So ultimately, this is likely to be higher for the probation officer,” Horn added – though he did acknowledge that it was “extremely uncommon for a pre-sentence investigation interview to be executed over Zoom.”