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*MANAFORT JURY ASKS QUESTION OVER FBAR FILING
*MANAFORT JUDGE TELLS JURY TO RELY ON COLLECTIVE EVIDENCE
*MANAFORT JURY ASKS ABOUT DEFINITION OF SHELF COMPANY… 2:15 PM - 16 Aug 2018
They asked him to define it again....”redefine”
A shelf company is one that is incorporated, but then that transacts no business until a later time. It is “put on the shelf.”
If found Not Guilty ,will Manafort get out of Solitary ?
Best answer! The act of asking proves reasonable doubt. I think "Would you bet your life on it?" would help further define it.
These are not what the prosecution wants the jury to be asking.
My understanding is the jury verdict must be unanimous. If that’s true, I predict Manafort won’t be found guilty.
The jury instructions define reasonable and the defense should have beaten that to death in closing, especially if that is their sole defense. By the time they retire, the jury should have no doubt what a reasonable doubt is.
If you have to ask what it means, then you have it.
How about a doubt that you can’t reason your way out of?
Your honor, would “we can’t believe this shi’ite” qualify?
Yup.
18 total:
5 Subscribing to false income tax returns
4 Failing to file foreign bank account reports
4 Bank fraud
5 Bank fraud conspiracy
LOL!
If a juror is asking for a definition, he apparently does not consider himself a reasonable person.
Manafort will be convicted, no doubt in my mind..this is ALL about getting Trump..otherwise he would have never been prosecuted, please, tax evasion, a usual slap on the wrist, but Manafort can get 300 years in prison..because he did something horrible according to the left, and that is working for Donald Trump to get him elected..meanwhile Jihadist scum bags in New Mexico walk free and they murdered their 3 year old child and taught their remaining children to be school shooters but hey, they are Muslim so its all good
“Isn’t it up to the jury to determine what reasonable doubt is?”
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Not the legal definition, but you hit on the important part anyway - if the jurors believe their doubt qualifies as being it, that’s all that matters.
If found Not Guilty ,will Manafort get out of Solitary ?
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No, the 0bama appointed DC judge locked up Manafort.
Tomorrow’s headlines: MULLER OPENS INVESTIGATION INTO PRESIDENTIAL JURY TAMPERING!!
Interesting fact that in the rules of evidence, the judge is not allowed to define that. The lawyers, in closing, both try to shape the definition, but it is left to the jury by design.
There will be no definition provided to this jury.
All that’s required is one stealth deplorable on the jury.
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