"Judge Merchan decided to outsmart the Supreme Court so he decided in advance that he wouldn't send him to jail," Dershowitz said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "I know of no judge in my 62 years of practice who has ever announced in advance what he's going to sentence the person to."

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