Trump set for sentencing in his New York felony conviction

After months of legal twists and turns, Donald Trump's most active criminal case is finally reaching a conclusion.

The former and future president is scheduled to appear in a Manhattan courtroom on Friday for his sentencing on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal a payment to an adult film star. Trump on Thursday exhausted his last legal maneuver to stop the sentencing, after a narrow majority of Supreme Court justices declined to intervene. The hearing comes just 10 days before Trump is expected to be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. He had argued the sentencing would interfere with his ability to govern.

In light of that, New York state Judge Juan Merchan has indicated he does not plan on sentencing Trump to prison or even probation, and is instead likely to offer an "unconditional discharge," meaning the president-elect must do nothing, but the conviction will remain on his record. Prosecutors have signaled the hearing could be short — less than an hour — and that Trump is expected to attend the hearing virtually.