Posted on 04/04/2023 4:53:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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Indicted.... but no law was broken. It’s straight out of Beria’s Soviet Union.
I am sure a new law will be created by the time this is all over.
And no violation of any criminal statute is cited.
He “concealed criminal conduct.”
So why didn’t they indict him for that criminal conduct?
If the indictment does not state which laws were broken, is it a legal instrument under New York law or not?
Does not matter.
The process is the punishment.
Mark Levin covered this. A bunch of nonsense is all this is but it will be drawn out to persecute Trump. Ultimately, it will fail.
Apparently campaigning, i.e. influencing an election is illegal - if you are a Republican.
No clearer case of the orange man bad statute has ever been pursued
does da bragg think stormy daniels is a chinese agent?
1) He ran for office.
2) He won.
3) He claims to be innocent of wrong-doing.
That’s three felonies right there.
They indicted him and didn’t identify the specific crime he violated as a felony.
We are all Stalinists now.
Interesting point.
Another thing I wondered... remember the whole “grab them by the *****” audio? That should have doomed his chances in 2015. But it didn’t. I doubt anyone would have been shocked to find out a billionaire playboy who was on the cover of major magazines and in the society pages of New York for decades had any number of alleged sexual affairs. The premise that he “bought the silence to win the election” is faulty given that the audio released was likely to be much more damaging than paying off some woman who claimed to have gone to bed with the man.
Of course, they had to wrap this nonsense in 32 ridiculous felony charges but the fact they open the indictment with a story about a payoff his lawyer made to some alleged sexual partner tells the tale. They are of course trying to say “see, the man didn’t account for this properly, he didn’t reimburse the lawyer but booked it as legal fees” or something like that. It’s almost too absurd to be real. 32 felony charges for getting rid of a nuisance that was probably more disturbing to his family than to the general public.
Does a grand jury indictment have to be unanimous?
No – but there must be at least 12 votes toward an indictment in the New York court system. A quorum of 16 grand jurors must be present for evidence and deliberation, and at least 12 grand jurors who have heard the essential evidence must vote.
Its not. A criminal defendant has the constitutional right to know what he is charged with. Otherwise how do you defend against it? This faulty indictment is a clear violation of due process. Also, the FEC has sole and exclusive jurisdiction over federal campaign finance cases, not NY. NY can not glom on to something they have zero jurisdiction over, in order to skirt statutes of limitation and/or to upgrade misdemeanors to felonies.
Doesn’t the indictment have to cite the particular law violated? No citation? No law broken.
No one has ever been charged for violating the non-law before.
The New York legal system is now a smoldering ruin.
Law? They don’t care about no stinkin’ law. They only care about POWER!
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