Posted on 05/31/2019 11:40:15 PM PDT by John Semmens
Former Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller's statement this week that he "did not have confidence that the president did not commit a crime" violates Rule 3.8(f) of the American Bar Association's code of professional conduct. The rule states that "The prosecutor in a criminal case shall refrain from making extrajudicial comments that have a substantial likelihood of heightening public condemnation of the accused."
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) excused this violation on the grounds that "special circumstances call for unprecedented actions. The 'innocent unless proven guilty' presumption may be a good approach in most cases, but prosecutors, especially Special Prosecutors, should have the discretion to go outside the boundaries, if, in their judgment, the situation warrants."
"Since President Trump has millions of supporters, heightening public condemnation of his behavior is essential if he is to be brought to justice," Nadler maintains. "Without a widespread vilification of his character that can drive down his approval in the polls there is no hope for impeaching him and removing him from office. Inasmuch as impeachment is a political process and not a judicial process, it seems to me that the ordinary procedures of political campaigns, which are hugely invested in vilification of one's political opponents, should apply, rather than the daintier procedures of the justice system."
Of course, heightening public condemnation of Trump is not the worst violation of the rules of justice by Mueller. When he was a DOJ attorney in Boston, Mueller ignored exculpatory evidence and allowed four men to languish in prison for years in order to "preserve a valuable FBI asset." That asset was the notorious, mass-murdering, Boston mobster Whitey Bulger, who was allegedly a confidential informant against fellow mobsters.
In related news, mega celebrity Cher was so incensed by Mueller's implication that Trump might be guilty of a crime for which there is no evidence, that she fantasized about Trump being gang-raped in prison. After her tasteless fantasy sparked some negative responses, Cher admitted that "I may have gone too far in my instinct to push for what I feel is best for Democrats and democracy."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/262181-2019-05-31-semi-news-semi-satire-june-2-2019-edition.htm
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I have no confidence that Robert Mueller did not commit a crime. . . In fact, I’m pretty certain he did. Let’s open a special investigation into the last thirty years of his career and see what’s under Mueller’s rocks.
What good is all the info being posted about so and so did this and that, which is a crime or a lie. The big shots can get away with it, but the average Joe get canned and imprison for it. Blind justice.
Lady Justice is peeking from behind her blindfold and I’d cheating!
Good stuff. Mueller’s statement, reiteration of his report, was truly unjust. And he knew it.
On the face of it, even knowing there was no predicate crime to appoint Mueller, Mueller himself was a bad and conflicted choice. And what he accomplished was the political equivalent of a temper tantrum. Lots of damage, and some lives ruined, and all for naught.
Trump beat them in 2016 and he beat them again in 2019 and they can’t get over either.
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