There is a reason the federal government has something like a 97% conviction rate on criminal investigations of income tax fraud. They only begin investigations on cases they believe are winnable and then only about 80% of those go on for indictment. In other words they only take slam dunk cases.
If the Manafort case was previously rejected it may merely mean that the chance of winning was something less than 90%. It doesn’t mean he was innocent.
True. But it does mean that Manafort would not have been indicted if he hadn’t helped Donald J. Trump campaign for the presidency.And that means that the prosecution is selective on a political basis - and therefore should be thrown out of court.
The evidence the prosecution will present will be a pretext, not the reason, that the prosecution proceeds.
A not guilty verdict in a trial doesn’t mean one is innocent either. Just sayin’.