I heard an extended interview with Costello on John Solomon last night. Cohen’s lawyer, and that idiot signed an attorney-client confidentiality waiver, so Costello is free to repeat everything Cohen said to him. You only need one juror who isn’t corrupt, and the case will go down in flames.
This is actually quite dangerous for Bragg. He’s got the flimsiest of cases, with a time-barred misdemeanor AT BEST that he’s trying to gin up into a felony. You have a witness in Costello who will burn the star witness, Cohen, righ to the ground. Now there’s the prospect of a bar complaint becuasencostello makes out a compelling case that exculpatory evidence was withheld from the grand jury.
We’ll see if Bragg’s TDS is strong enough to get him to go for it in what will be a very troubled case
As pas asked in post 3, in Bragg required to present exculpatory evidence to the grand jury? Certainly, in a trial it would be a severe problem.
“ You only need one juror who isn’t corrupt, and the case will go down in flames”
In a Grand Jury it is a majority vote as to whether to indict or not. One or two dissenting jurors are not enough to avoid indictment.
Actually for Bragg it may be best if the Grand Jury declines to indict Trump. Bragg probably has a pretty weak case and legally suspect. If he goes to trial and loses, he looks like a fool. If the Grand Jury declines to indict then Bragg can say he did all he could do, blame the Grand Jury system.
Malicious prosecution is extraordinarily hard to prove as the perpetrator of said prosecution can usually use being incompetent as a defense, however in a situation like this it seems within the realm of possibilities should a venue where any semblance of justice exists
Whether or not Bragg goes ahead, the damage is done.
He can even go on TV and say “We could not get enough people to testify the way we wanted” and the sheeple will say “Oh, so he’s guilty, but they won’t testify for you...??”
Trump needs to go on the offensive and sue the crap out out Bragg AND New York State.
This is a grand jury. 12 out of 23 Grand jury members need to vote for an indictment in order for the case to proceed. If Bragg continues with the grand jury, I suspect Trump will be indicted.
As to an actual trial, we can hope that there is one sane person accidentally allowed on the jury.
There can’t be a “mistrial” because there’s not an indictment.