Shugaban Amurka mai zama, Donald Trump, ya samu hukuncin da ake kira “unconditional discharge” a ranar Juma’a, bayan da aka yanke masa hukunci a cikin shari’ar da ya shafi biyan kudaden shiru ga jarumar fim din batsa, Stormy Daniels. Hukuncin ya sa Trump ya zama tsohon shugaban Amurka na farko da aka yanke masa hukunci a kotu.
Alkalin kotu, Juan Merchan, ya bayyana hukuncin a ranar Juma’a, bayan da tawagar lauyoyin Trump suka yi kokarin jinkirta hukuncin kafin rantsar da shugaban a ranar 20 ga Janairu. Hukuncin “unconditional discharge” yana nufin cewa hukuncin zai kasance a cikin tarihin Trump, amma ba zai fuskanci zaman gidan yari, tara, ko kuma gwajin halayya ba.
Trump, wanda ya yi wa’adin shugabancin Amurka daga 2017 zuwa 2021, an yanke masa hukunci a kan tuhume-tuhume 34 na karya takardun kasuwanci da suka shafi biyan kudaden shiru ga Stormy Daniels. Shugaban mai zama ya musanta laifin kuma ya ce zai daukaka kara kan hukuncin.
Yayin da yake gabatar da hukuncin ta hanyar bidiyo, Trump ya ce shari’ar da hukuncin sun kasance “wani mummunan abu” a gare shi, kuma ya tabbatar da cewa bai aikata wani laifi ba. “Wannan shari’a ce ta siyasa,” in ji shi kafin alkalin ya yanke hukuncin. “An yi ta ne don lalata sunana don in rasa zaben, amma a fili hakan bai yi nasara ba.”
Masu gabatar da kara a New York sun yi iÆ™irarin cewa biyan kudaden shiru na nufin É“oye zargin dangantakar jima’i da Daniels wanda zai iya zama mai illa ga siyasarsa. Trump, wanda ya ki amincewa da laifin, ya musanta cewa irin wannan dangantaka ta faru.
Lauyoyinsa sun nemi Kotun Koli ta Amurka ta dakatar da hukuncin don “hana babban zalunci da cutarwa ga ofishin shugaban kasa da ayyukan gwamnatin tarayya”. Sun yi iÆ™irarin cewa wani hukunci da kotun koli ta yanke a baya wanda ke ba shugabanni kariya daga tuhume-tuhumen laifuka ya kamata ba a gabatar da wasu shaidu a cikin shari’ar.
Amma mafi yawan alkalan kotun koli sun ce a cikin wani hukunci da suka yanke a ranar Alhamis cewa “zargin keta dokar shaidu” a shari’ar kotun jihar Trump “za a iya magance su ta hanyar daukaka kara”. Sun kuma ce “nauyin da hukuncin zai yi” kan ayyukan Trump “ba shi da yawa idan aka yi la’akari da niyyar kotun da ta nuna cewa za ta yanke hukuncin ‘unconditional discharge’ bayan taron bidiyo na gajeren lokaci”.
A karkashin dokar hukunta manyan laifuka ta New York, kotu na iya yanke hukuncin “unconditional discharge” idan ta ga cewa “babu wata manufa da za ta yi amfani da sanya wani sharadi kan sakin wanda ake tuhuma”.
