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As Effort To ‘Get Trump’ Ramps Up, Are Leaks From Bragg’s Grand Jury a Crime?
The New York Sun ^ | 3/31/23 | ALAN DERSHOWITZ

Posted on 04/01/2023 2:04:29 PM PDT by Jim W N

It is likely that a serious felony has been committed right under District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s nose and he is not investigating it. Under New York law, it is a felony to leak confidential grand jury information, such as whether the jurors voted to indict. The protection of secrecy is as applicable to President Trump as it is to anyone else.

We know that the information was disclosed while the indictment itself remains sealed and before any official announcement was made or charges brought. It is unlikely that the leak came from the Trump team, which seemed genuinely surprised.

The most likely, though uncertain, scenario is that a person in Mr. Bragg’s office or a grand juror unlawfully leaked the sealed information. That would be a class E felony, subject to imprisonment.

It is possible of course that an investigation is underway, but it seems more likely that Mr. Bragg is too busy making up a crime against the man he promised in his campaign to get than investigating a real crime that took place on his watch.

In my new book, “Get Trump,” I predicted that partisan prosecutors would try to get Trump regardless of the lack of evidence or law. That prediction has come true. [B]ased on leaks, that it involves multiple counts, almost certainly involving the payment of hush money to a porn actress.

Under Mr. Bragg’s likely theory, Mr. Trump should have disclosed in his public corporate records that he paid the hush money to avoid his adulterous affair from becoming public. But no one in history has ever publicly disclosed the reason he paid money for a non-disclosure agreement.

Thus, even the misdemeanor allegation involving false entries is unprecedented and represents selective prosecution. It is also almost certainly barred by the two-year statute of limitations.

(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alvinbragg; bananarepublic; bidenvoters; bragg; bragggate; braggwillgodown; dershowitz; dershy; felonious; felony; grandjury; grandjuryleak; grandjuryleaker; harassment; persecution; shamdictment; trump; trumpindictment
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Not to mention the violation of the 4th Amendment that individuals have the right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures (including investigations) requiring the government first show probable cause of a crime having been committed.

Here, it seems clear there was no initial showing by this corrupt DA of probable cause of a crime committed by Trump to allow a valid and legal investigation, but rather an investigation with NO probable cause to see if government could FIND IF Trump had somehow committed a crime. That makes the investigation and all that followed UNCONSTITUTIONAL, ILLEGAL, and should subject this corrupt DA to possible indictment himself.

1 posted on 04/01/2023 2:04:29 PM PDT by Jim W N
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nothing will be done. Nothing will happen to the leaker. No one wants to go to the front of the masses and start the event.


2 posted on 04/01/2023 2:15:57 PM PDT by rovenstinez ( )
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To: Jim W N

From what I heard Bragg’s wife was tweeting out hinting about his before it was known. And then she locked her twitter account.


3 posted on 04/01/2023 2:16:06 PM PDT by Revel
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NOTHING is a crime if it isn’t prosecuted. Democrat 101.


4 posted on 04/01/2023 2:17:54 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
NOTHING is a crime if it isn’t prosecuted. Democrat 101.

ANYTHING is a crime if there is an accusation by a Democrat. Democrat 102.

5 posted on 04/01/2023 2:20:34 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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They will gag order Trump and then allow all kinds of leaks out of Bragg’s side.


6 posted on 04/01/2023 2:33:58 PM PDT by dforest (All of America has derailed.)
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When every institution with power and influence in our country is controlled by liberal democrat partisans.

What can we do?

Answer: “Make every thing as hard as possible for the bastards.”


7 posted on 04/01/2023 2:34:06 PM PDT by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: Jim W N

Mr. Dershowitz argues for the rule of law. How quaint.


9 posted on 04/01/2023 2:38:47 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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So what if it is? File your question under Las Vegas massacre, Scotus Roe leak, Hillary’s server, etc


10 posted on 04/01/2023 2:40:00 PM PDT by bigbob
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Are Leaks From Bragg’s Grand Jury a Crime?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Yes.

But the misprison of prosecution tyrant Bragg would never investigate or prosecute one of his grand jurors now would he?


11 posted on 04/01/2023 2:47:59 PM PDT by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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They can leak all they want, but Trump will be under a gag order.

It’s the fascist way.


12 posted on 04/01/2023 2:51:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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George Soros bought a municipal partisan Marxist DA to indite a President of the United States of America.

Clearly the “government” no longer functions at all.

All rules are suspended now, for both sides.

A leak is the least of the worries. The backlash is bound to be unbelievable. And the additional overtly violent assault on Trump and his property including more use of paramilitary FBI secret police and others - is inevitable.

Expect a total restriction on Trump’s ability to talk about it by the courts.

If this does not destroy Trump, they will use unpaid traffic tickets or anything they can think of.

Either Trump gives up, or this thing is likely to go DEFCON 1.


13 posted on 04/01/2023 3:04:10 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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Bookmark


14 posted on 04/01/2023 3:28:33 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: FlyingEagle

Our system of pseudo justice on steroids....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS-f_KwM81I


15 posted on 04/01/2023 3:38:26 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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I expect, on Tuesday, that Bragg will argue for a gag order and it will probably be granted in some degree. Trump’s team will then appeal that order immediately. It is questionable if that will be successful in the appeal court. He may have to file a federal court civil rights violation case in order to get a ruling to at least temporarily stay the gag order until the federal court makes a decision on the case.

Bragg needs to be the only one making allegations/leaks in order to taint the already biased jury pool and to have the media be able to constantly present a totally one sided narrative. Also, the gag order would make it almost impossible for Trump to hold campaign events because he might violate the gag order.

ALL IS GOING ACCORDING TO PLAN.


16 posted on 04/01/2023 3:41:34 PM PDT by usnavy_cop_retired (Retiree in the P.I. living as a legal immigrant)
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They’ll find this leaker like they found the SCOTUS leaker /s

It’s likely Trump will be gagged before trial and convicted of something. It’s a NY jury. He’ll get a fair trial there just like he would in DC or Atlanta. They won’t rest until he’s in prison.

17 posted on 04/01/2023 3:47:59 PM PDT by newzjunkey (We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024)
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When the top prosecutor commits crimes...who prosecutes him?


18 posted on 04/01/2023 3:56:58 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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i told Donnie to pay those parking tickets


19 posted on 04/01/2023 4:08:53 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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I predict that in the future, what little may remain, that the saying “Bragg’s Folly” will be found in the newer editions of Webster’s Dictionary to define when someone uses the power of an elected office for political purposes to interfere with an election by overplaying a very weak hand. His name will be right up there with forever shamed names like Benedict Arnold and Samual Mudd.


20 posted on 04/01/2023 4:11:35 PM PDT by TonyM (Score Event)
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