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Will Trump be convicted in any of his cases?  

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  1. 1. Will Trump be convicted in any of his cases?

    • Yes. He's going 4 for 4. (including Georgia)
      6
    • He's going to lose 3
      5
    • Two for sure
      8
    • He's only going to get convicted in one
      1
    • No. He's going to skate
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Fergasun

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And somehow this will have no bearing on the cult like support for him. "You can't buy rich people!!!"...  waiting for Nikki Haley to pop up to say, "I told you so!!!"..

 

I can't see how these legal troubles don't start reflecting on him.

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3 hours ago, Fergasun said:

And somehow this will have no bearing on the cult like support for him. "You can't buy rich people!!!"...  waiting for Nikki Haley to pop up to say, "I told you so!!!"..

 

I can't see how these legal troubles don't start reflecting on him.

He just stood up and saluted domestic terrorists while the national anthem played and it was barely a story.

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Larry

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10 hours ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

 

Is there such a thing as lawyers that don't give a bad name to lawyers?

 

Line from Frasier.  He's talking with his brother Niles. 

 

Frasier:  I hate lawyers. 

 

Niles:  So do I. But they make wonderful patients. They have excellent health insurance, and they never get better. 

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Stormy Weather Ahead for Trump

 

Donald Trump is being hit where it hurts. With 30 companies unwilling to help him post bond, he may face forfeitures or have to liquidate assets at fire sale prices to pay the hundreds of millions he owes in damages.

 

While the outcome of those civil cases is satisfying, I’m more focused on the criminal charges he faces. Until recently, I had planned to go to Washington to cover the Trump Coup Trial. But with the Supreme Court shamelessly delaying that federal prosecution, my attention has now turned to New York’s juicy Trump Hush Money Trial, where a jury this spring will determine whether the Orange Monster broke the law and won the 2016 election by covering up his secret payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.

 

After jury selection begins in April, we’re looking at the first criminal trial of a U.S. president in American history. Last week, the trial was delayed—probably for a few weeks—pending a hearing about the mysterious release of thousands of pages of documents from federal prosecutors who had pursued the hush money case but declined to prosecute Trump.

 

In the meantime, March 18 was a big day in this case—a big win for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and a big loss for Trump. Juan M. Merchan, a New York State judge, is showing again that he is a careful, by-the-book jurist who will take no legal hooey from the former president’s lawyers. He granted almost all of the District Attorney’s motions and denied almost all of Trump’s.

 

Judge Merchan ruled that Trump’s lawyers will not be allowed to:

  • Compare this prosecution to that of former Senator John Edwards, the North Carolina Democrat who was acquitted in a similar case.
  • Argue selective prosecution (the District Attorney routinely brings these kinds of business fraud cases).
  • Argue that the District Attorney is using a “novel” interpretation of the law, which many anti-Trump legal experts believe to be true.
  • Refer to a decision by the Federal Election Commission (then dominated by Republicans) to clear Trump.
  • Refer to federal prosecutors’ concerns about the credibility of former Trump henchman Michael Cohen, the key prosecution witness in the case, or their decision to drop their investigation.
  • Introduce into evidence a book by Mark Pomerantz, a former top prosecutor in the District Attorney’s office, that criticizes the Hush Money prosecution.
  • Invoke the advice-of-counsel defense, Trump’s familiar excuse that he was just listening to his lawyers and, therefore, isn’t guilty.

But the judge pointed to well-established exceptions that will allow:

 

  • Testimony about a key meeting in Trump Tower between Trump, Cohen, and publisher David Pecker, the former CEO of American Media that owned the National Enquirer, the paper that engaged in catch-and-kill operations to buy exclusive stories that might embarrass Trump and then not run them. Also off-limits are Pecker’s business records and those of Trump’s convicted accountant, Allen Weisselberg.
  • Evidence pertaining to the alleged purchase of information from Dino Sajudin (a doorman).
  • The alleged extramarital affair between the defendant and Karen McDougal.
  • The alleged sexual encounter with Stephanie Clifford (Stormy Daniels).
  • The alleged publication of negative information about Defendant’s opponents.

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At least two Aileen Cannon law clerks recently quit: legal analyst

 

Florida District Court Judge Aileen Cannon has been drawing the bad kind of attention since entering the judicial spotlight — and now it seems staffers are putting their own resumes first.

 

AboveTheLaw co-founder David Lat wrote Thursday on his Substack that two of her clerks recently resigned. Clerks typically focus on writing and research for the judge.

 

He cited a Tuesday New York Times article that addressed the "slow pace" of Cannon's court. She "has done herself no favors by allowing a logjam of unresolved issues to build up on her docket," the report stated.

 

"I have an idea of at least one factor behind the delays: Judge Cannon has had at least two law clerks quit on her, according to multiple sources — including individuals who serve in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, where she sits," wrote Lat.

 

He explained that a federal district court judge like Cannon typically hires two or three clerks annually, so when two quit, it significantly cuts her staff, he said.

 

Lat also noted that it's "highly unusual" for a clerk to quit because the job only lasts a year and is so valuable to a résumé.

 

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Fergasun

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Heads up.  The next thing in Florida that will happen is that s right-wing lawyer/scholar had fired an "amicus brief" saying Jack Smith's appointment is unconstitutional.  The same argument was filed by some people (also right wing scholars, etc.) in the DC case but the judge said it was a very unusual motion. 

 

Cannon has asked Smith to respond by April 4.  Of course this is another issue that will be sure to delay the case.... 

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That amicus brief is a joke.  The fact that Cannon is taking it seriously shows where her biases and competencies lie.  Still wating for her to step too far over the line and for Jack Smith to appeal one of her decisions to the 11th Circuit, and then get her removed.  It would undoubtedly delay the case, but that's OK, because he will eventually be convicted.

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Based on the cowardice evident in our justice system as it pertains to Trump, I’m calling it now:  Trump will be convicted on all but four of his NY criminal charges; he will receive a 3 month suspended sentence (thus will serve no jail time) and receive a $375K fine which will be suspended pending appeal.

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LadySkinsFan

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Tax Day, an appropriate day for the one who made an offer that couldn't really be refused, then the same one directed his lawyer to pay the offer, and made the final decision on how the payment should be handled through fraudulent posting as a payment for legal services in the corporate books. 

 

That's it in a nutshell. 

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Renegade7

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20 minutes ago, Bang said:

I just noticed the 'arrest watch' thread is over a year old.
Weakness is all we've seen.

 

~Bang

 

Merrick Garland is not bout that life...there was no need to make up a damn thing, can't think of a worse appointment by this administration, in spite of everything Biden has gotten right he got this dude wrong.

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