Another option for Judge Merchan with respect to sentencing: Interim Supervised Probation.

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5. But if the only federal crimes Cohen had been charged with were the two counts related to the hush money scheme

he might well have only gotten probation, particularly when you consider he only got three years for a series of crimes that included one with a maximum 30 year sentence that were unrelated to the hush money scheme. It is not unknown for federal campaign law violations to result in a probation sentence rather than jail time.

So, as noted, comparing Cohen's punishment to whatever Trump gets is comparing apples to oranges.