The New York Court of Appeals has denied President-elect Donald Trump's request to halt his sentencing Friday in his criminal hush money case.

In their Thursday response to the defense’s Court of Appeals filing, Manhattan prosecutors claim Trump counsel is relying on federal procedure and federal cases that do not apply in a New York state criminal proceeding in their attempts to assert sentencing is precluded by presidential immunity.

That sentencing is scheduled to take place Friday in Manhattan, where Trump was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records in May.

New York’s highest appeals court declined to block Donald Trump’s sentencing in his felony conviction, leaving the Supreme Court as Trump's likely last option.

Harry Black, staff attorney with the State Democracy Research Initiative, reviews decisions from the the New York Court of Appeals’ last term including ‘Hoffmann’ (redistricting), ‘Stefanik’  (vote-by-mail),

The president-elect is due to be sentenced Friday morning for 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

Trump is now waiting to see if the Supreme Court will intervene at his behest and stop the proceeding from going forward on Friday.

A New York top court denied Trump’s bid to delay sentencing in hush money case, while his appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court remains pending.

President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday's sentencing in his hush money case in New York.

New York's highest appeals court shot down President-elect Donald Trump's longshot attempt to delay Friday's sentencing in his hush-money conviction that was decided back in May.

The move leaves the US Supreme Court as the president-elect’s likely last option to prevent the hearing from taking place Friday.

One judge of the New York Court of Appeals issued a brief order declining ... public interest in proceeding to sentencing,” Manhattan prosecutors wrote. “Defendant has provided no record ...