A judge is expected to decide next week whether President-elect Donald Trump’s murder conviction in the New York hush money case will stand ahead of a possible Nov. 26 sentencing hearing.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan — who already delayed Trump’s sentencing months before the election — will decide Tuesday whether the conviction stands after the U.S. Supreme Court’s July immunity ruling.

Trump’s defense team had previously asked Merchan to dismiss the case after the High Court’s decision.

Prosecutors in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office told Merchan that the nation’s highest court’s ruling was unrelated to Trump’s conviction on charges that he illegally paid money to keep women quiet about alleged sexual encounters and then he covered the payments as legal expenses in his time. 2016 campaign.

The judge said that if Trump’s impeachment motion fails, “the law requires that the sentence be imposed upon a guilty verdict without unreasonable delay.”

A sentencing hearing is set for 10 a.m. Nov. 26, but will not be required if the judge dismisses the case.

In late May, a Manhattan jury convicted Trump of all counts in his hush money case. Trump was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records for disguising hush money payments to an adult film actress as legal costs before the 2016 election. Under New York state law, falsifying business records in the first degree is a Class E felony with a maximum penalty of four years in prison.

In July, the US Supreme Court ruled that presidents and former presidents have absolute immunity from actions related to basic constitutional powers and presumptive immunity from official actions. The ruling says the president does not have immunity for non-official conduct.

Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the election in both the popular vote and the Electoral College, easily winning what pollsters predicted would be a close race. Trump had 72,993,733 votes as of Thursday, compared to 68,351,712 votes for Harris, with several million votes still to be counted, mostly in blue states. Trump received 312 Electoral College votes compared to 226 for Harris.

U.S. Justice Department prosecutors in Jack Smith’s office could close their twin cases against Trump before Trump returns to the White House in January, according to the department’s policy that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted, NBC News reported.

Trump also faces election interference charges in Georgia.