Posted on 04/05/2022 2:26:47 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for the Hillary Clinton campaign charged with lying to the FBI during the Trump-Russia investigation is asking a judge to block from his upcoming trial evidence or testimony related to a dossier of uncorroborated allegations compiled by an-ex British spy.
Attorneys for Michael Sussmann said prosecutors on special counsel John Durham’s team told them last month that they plan to introduce testimony related to the so-called “Steele dossier,” a collection of Democratic-funded research assembled by former British operative Christopher Steele that purported to link Donald Trump to Russia. The dossier contains unproven and discredited assertions but the FBI relied on it in part as agents applied for secret surveillance warrants during the Russia investigation.
Sussmann’s attorneys argued in a Monday night filing that the Steele dossier is irrelevant to the case against their client, and that testimony about it at a trial scheduled for next month would be inflammatory and prejudicial.
“Any modicum of relevance would be so substantially outweighed by risk of confusion, delay, waste, and unfair prejudice as to require this evidence be precluded,” Sussmann’s attorneys wrote, telling U.S. District Judge Christopher “Casey” Cooper that Durham’s team should not be permitted to turn the trial “into a circus full of sideshows that will only fuel partisan fervor.”
The motion is one of several from both prosecutors and defense lawyers aimed at shaping the scope of evidence for a trial that is expected to be closely watched and politically charged. In seeking to preclude testimony related to the dossier, Sussmann’s attorneys are looking to head off discussion before the jury about one of the more incendiary and divisive aspects of the entire Russia investigation.
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I know! So NOW it’s discredited and unproven! It was that way 2 years ago as well! Must be some legal trick to save Hillary
We know who the king pins are and they still walk free today and will die of old age never to be prosecuted
The really bad part is that the GOP leadership knew by June of 2017 (by Trey Gowdy’s admission) that it was junk and yet continued to assist the Democrats to keep it going long after that.
“who told you to put the balm on?
It’s a sham.
It’s a mockery.
It’s two shams of a mockery of a sham.
Nobody’s actually been charged with conspiracy though, so it remains to be seen how much leeway a judge will give him based on that.
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