At trial, Kunstler and Stewart mounted an audacious defense, based on the theory that Larry Davis had been forced against his will to sell drugs for a ring of corrupt NYPD cops, who had decided to murder him when he said refused to deal with them any further.
Kunstler and Stewart asserted in court that the corrupt officers had demanded $1 million from Davis, which he didn't have, and for that they had conspired to execute him.
Before he was finally arrested, Larry Davis had murdered at least five people, all of them drug dealers.
The defense tactics of Kunstler and Stewart resulted in acquittal for Davis on the most serious charges arising from the shoot-out with police, although the jury voted to convict him on six counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
Many facts of the case can be found on-line, including in Chapter 13 of William M. Kunstler: The Most Hated Lawyer in America, by David J. Langum.
It's obvious to me that the Left has learned its lesson well, and is using these tactics against DJT as he prepares to take office as President.
They've leveled many charges against Trump in recent months, both before and after the election. For proof, they offered very shaky "testimony" that was easily discredited, or (in the case of the "Russian hacking" accusation) is entirely absent.
But this kind of accusation is effective. They don't really expect to convince anyone who supports DJT, or even very many of those who are lukewarm toward his presidency. They hope to (a) increase and sustain the hatred of DJT among left-leaning Americans, (b) force DJT to defend himself, and (c) discredit and delegitimize his Presidency before it even starts, thereby diminishing his power as a communicator and bargainer.
The Larry Davis case shows that this can be made to work. That they are ramping up their attacks shows that they believe it is working.
BTTT.
Since the Demoncrats are ACTUAL Communists, they're breaking their own laws.
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power.” – Malcolm X
They cannot diminish his presidentcy since he bypasses them daily..........
Do you know what happened to Larry Davis? Is he still alive? Has he reoffended?
Larry Davis went on trial for the Vizcaino murder five months later. He was found guilty on March 14, 1991.[24] Already serving 5 to 15 years on weapons charges, he was sentenced to serve an additional 25 years to life. After the sentencing, Davis spoke for about an hour, repeating his longstanding complaint that the police and the court system were engaged in a vendetta against him.[4]
Death[edit]
Davis was serving his sentence at Shawangunk Correctional Facility near the Ulster County hamlet of Wallkill. At 7 p.m. on February 20, 2008, correctional officers overseeing one of the yards noticed inmates congregating around an apparent fight. When they went to break it up, they found Davis had been stabbed repeatedly with a 9 inches (23 cm) long metal shiv. He was taken by ambulance to St. Luke’s Hospital in nearby Newburgh, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.[25]
After questioning by the state police and the New York State Department of Correctional Services’s (DOCS) inspector general’s office, another inmate, Luis Rosado, 42, was charged with murder.[26]
Rosado was already serving a sentence of 25 years to life for murder and assault charges in the early 1980s, and had been denied parole in 2007. He was arraigned at Shawangunk Town Court the next morning. DOCS officials said both he and Davis had long disciplinary records, including fights with other inmates, but there was no record of any previous violence between the two.[26]
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