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Prison for Trump?

Donald Trump became the first US president to be convicted of a crime. Now, the judge overseeing the case will soon face a monumental choice: whether or not to sentence him to time behind bars.

As my Reuters colleague Luc Cohen reports, prison time is rare for people convicted in New York state of felony falsification of business records, but not unprecedented.

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Donald Trump in Manhattan Criminal Court. Seth Wenig/Pool via REUTERS

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