Posted on 02/08/2021 3:36:16 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Whatever your view on President Trump's responsibility for the events of January 6th, it was still stunning to hear Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York City on Jonathan Capehart's MSNBC Sunday Show this morning, argue that the Senate should interpret Trump's declining to testify as "incriminating." Asked by Capehart whether President Trump should testify, Jeffries responded:
"He should testify and defend himself. But because he has clearly refused to do so, in my view, there should be an adverse impact, an inference drawn that anything he would have had to say would have actually not been exonerating. It would have been incriminating."
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What do you think this Dem congressman and Jonathan Capehart would say if someone suggested that juries should view the refusal of BLM defendants to testify as “incriminating?”
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
It’s called a “negative inference”. This clown actually has a law degree from New York University. He doesn’t even know the name of the legal maxim, let alone how to apply it. Affirmative action at work.
Two things:
As I understand it, in our system, if you do not testify against yourself, it is improper for a judge or jury to interpret that as a sign of guilt.
On the other hand, I believe the legal term is spoliation, if someone willfully destroys evidence, it is considered proper for a judge or jury to consider that missing evidence in the worst possible light and a sign of definite guilt.
Was any evidence destroyed as part of The Steal? Well, then those people are guilty.
MSNBC is an enemy of America and so is anyone who appears on their station.
Hakeem Jeffries is too stupid to understand our system of ‘innocent until proven guilty’... Jeffries is black trash.
“Affirmative action at work.”
DC is filled with too many live examples of this to whom plain language like “shall not be infringed”, “Congress shall make no law”, and “nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself” are derivations of white supremacy keeping the Negro down.
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