Posted on 04/19/2024 8:39:41 PM PDT by bitt
Prosecutors made the unusual decision this week to remain almost entirely mum about the order in which they planned to call their first witnesses in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York.
Joshua Steinglass, a prosecutor working on behalf of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, said Friday evening he would let Trump’s attorneys know the name of their first witness on Sunday night, the day before opening arguments in the case are set to begin, according to a report from the courtroom. Trump’s defense team had asked for the names of the first three witnesses that prosecutors would call.
However, Steinglass warned that if Trump posted about the first witness on social media, he would cease extending defense attorneys the courtesy of a heads-up.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys receive lists of witnesses before the trial, but they do not know the order in which the opposing parties will call their witnesses. It is common practice for parties to give advanced notice to each other of the general order in which the witnesses will appear.
Steinglass’s remarks about waiting until Sunday to provide the name of the first witness came after prosecutors initially declined altogether to offer any information about the first witnesses they planned to question. Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche had asked on Thursday if Steinglass could tell him who the first three would be.
Steinglass “balked” at the request and Blanche appeared “mystified” by Steinglass’s negative response to him, according to reports circulated by a pool of courtroom reporters.
“Mr. Trump has been tweeting about the witnesses,” Steinglass told Judge Juan Merchan. “We’re not telling them who the witnesses are.”
Blanche then asked Merchan if he could have the information if he promised Trump would not post on social media about the witnesses, to which Merchan replied that he did not believe Blanche could make such a vow.
Attorney Karen Agnifilo, a Trump critic who formerly worked in top positions in the Manhattan DA’s office, told the Washington Examiner in an email that prosecutors denying defense attorneys notice about their witness order was abnormal, but she also indicated that she viewed it as justifiable.
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“Trump critic “ man the examiner still run by all the old bush neocons I see
They don’t want Trump’s lawyers ready to Fact Check all the. blatant lies of the rehearsed witnesses.
Think that fake rape victim in the Supreme Court Justices trial. Blassey something.
Isn’t it illegal to do this? Isn’t prosecution required to present all evidence and witnesses to defense?
Such a farce. These jerks know full well this whole thing will be thrown out AFtER they install Chomo Joe . This is only to keep Trump off the campaign trail.
Crime family boss, Juan Merchan, is running a Star Chamber trial. For profit.
The must fear that Trump will have a Clinton (Arkancide) done on the witnesses.
DJT is making plenty of politcal hay in NYC, NJ...and soon or later PA and CT.
He has great knack for turning $hit into Shinola!
That’s reversible error right there.
IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THE “CONSERVATIVE” SUPREME COURT JUSTICES CAN JUST CASUALY STAND BY AND ALLOW ALL OF THE “PURE JUNK” COMING FROM THE NEW YORK COURTS ...BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN.
WHAT KIND OF ...JUSTICES DO WE HAVE ON THE SUPREME COURT...
I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT...SEEING WHAT OUT.FREAKIN..RAGEOUS ALL OF THESE PROCEEDINGS ARE.
WHERE THE HELL IS OUR CONSERVATIVE SUPREME COURT.
ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE???????
This should be grounds for a mistrial!
Joetato never left the basement and he got 81 million ballots.
Steinglass. I’m paying attention.
I’ve been thinking the exact same thing.
“He threatens witnesses...]
If so, produce an example! SHOW ME!
They can’t! These scumbags are beyond disgusting! Absolute bottom of the barrel.
Evil!
We all claim to want limited and Constitutional government. This is a state case. Absent some federal legal question, the whole case will be handled by the New York state courts.
The last thing limited government proponents want is the federal courts reaching down into state jurisdiction.
How can Trump threaten witnesses if fatso Bragg won’t tell him who they are?
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