Corrupt Judge Merchan Sides with Bragg’s Prosecutors, Rules Jury DOES NOT Need to Unanimously Agree on “Predicate” Crimes in Trump ‘Hush Money’ Case

Gateway Pundit ^ | May 24, 2024 | Cristina Laila

[lowbridge]

Corrupt and biased Judge Juan Merchan has so far refused to release the jury instructions to the public after Bragg’s prosecutors and Trump’s attorneys sparred over the order during a conference earlier this week.

Jury instructions can make or break a case for either side.

No doubt Judge Merchan’s jury instructions “will be horrendously poisonous” Mark Levin said earlier this week.

Judge Merchan however sided with Bragg’s prosecutors and ruled the jury does NOT need to unanimously agree on the “predicate” crime Trump committed.

“In other words: If some jurors believe that Trump falsified business documents solely to cover up a tax crime, while others believe that he falsified business documents solely to cover up an election crime, the jury can still convict Trump on the felony-level falsifying-documents charges, despite disagreeing on the predicate crimes.” Politico’s Josh Gerstein wrote.

Alvin Bragg indicted Trump in April 2023 on 34 felony counts related to ‘hush payments’ he made to Stormy Daniels.

Trump was accused of paying porn star Stormy Daniels, AKA, Stephanie Clifford, ‘hush payments’ through his then-attorney Michael Cohen in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the National Enquirer.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well its going to be a guilty verdict so the democrat media can all go on sir and call Trump a convicted felon. That’s the whole point of this from their angle. Of course an appeals court will overturn the whole thing.

[mware]

Might be why there is so much news about conservative justices in SC right now.

[NorthMountain]

There is a tree in New York that is missing its “strange fruit”.

[Political Junkie Too]

If they can't agree on a predicate crime, then the defendant must be given the presumption of innocence of the supposed crimes.

And even if they do agree, without a conviction in a court of law, the defendant has the presumption of innocence.

-PJ

[MosesKnows]

The true beauty of America's Due Process system of Justice is the jury. The jury has a power that no other entity has. The jury has the power to judge the evidence and the law. The Judge can only judge the evidence.

[DoughtyOne]

Didn’t Merchan deny the defense the right to call witnesses, after he was angered by the first one? There are so many reason this trial could be nullified for.

[laplata]

That’s right.

[laplata]

I agree.

[laplata]

“Of course an appeals court will overturn the whole thing”.

And they will still call him a convicted felon.

[Ex-Con777]

We the Jury find the defendant guilty of a crime we cannot agree on, 31 times.

SMH

EC

[Georgia Girl 2]

Of course. 😄

[AndyTheBear]

Read the two statutes for falsifying records. The one for the second degree and one for the first degree.