Posted on 01/16/2024 8:43:17 AM PST by Coronal
Former President Donald Trump on Monday lost an experienced defense attorney from his legal roster.
Joe Tacopina told ABC News, "I withdrew on all matters."
Tacopina accompanied Trump when the former president pleaded not guilty in New York last April to charges that he falsified business records stemming from his hush payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
Prosecutors with the Manhattan DA's office allege that Trump engaged in a "scheme" to boost his election chances during the 2016 presidential race through a series of hush money payments made by others to help his campaign, and then "repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records" to conceal that criminal conduct. Trump has denied all wrongdoing.
In a letter to Judge Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing the case, Tacopina wrote, "I write to respectfully inform the Court that my firm, Chad Seigel and I hereby withdraw as counsel for Defendant Donald J. Trump in this proceeding,"
Susan Necheles is Trump's lead counsel in the case. Attorney Todd Blanche also appeared at April's arraignment.
Tacopina also represented Trump in the civil defamation and battery case brought by former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, in which Trump was found liable and ordered to pay Carroll $5 million in damages.
Tacopina will no longer handle Trump's appeal of that verdict.
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More fruit of a “honey trap”?
It is standard procedure in the legal world for the original lawyers to withdraw after an appeal has been filed. This is probably nothing more than that. The fact that the original team says nothing more, is also professionally standard procedure. Michael Cohen failed at this basic professional standard.
Probably got threatened by the FBI with prosecution. Representing Trump is now considered a criminal offense.
NeverTrump glee.
Chicken. Buck buck buck
Yep. Litigators are specialists. Appeal attorneys are specialists. It makes sense for a litigator assisting on a case to withdraw after the trial is over.
wow- the left have really got him now! /s
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