A graduate of the Schiff, Schumer, Nadler school of fascist thought?
Due process is a joke in their ideological totalitarian camp.
This trial will be won or lost in the media ? Steinglass acts like it.
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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SCOTUS can’t just dive in unannounced
What we are witnessing is a corrupted FEDERAL JUSTICE DEPT assisting a corrupted state jurisdiction
For SCOTUS to be involved it has to go through a process of someone claiming irregularity or relief
Might be something congress could do symbolically ?
I grew up in the thick of the civil rights bullshit
Then the feds countered the states desires
Not so with trump
The opposite
It’s vexing
Without question Trump will be found guilty by this kangaroo court and hauled off to Rikers Island. While the radical left will rejoice, the rest of the country will react differently. Biden is going down in a Trump landslide this November. This star trial will awaken a sleeping giant filled with terrible resolve.
How so?
We’re watching pure EVIL.
We’re watching pure EVIL.
Not sharing the witness list with Trump’s defense team until hours before they “testify” should be grounds, one would think.
Then there was Bragg dumping 100,000 pages of documents on Trump’s team shortly before the trial and not postponing the start of the trial until his team had a chance to review those documents is another issue.
You are right, and I forgot the quotes and the sarcasm tags, of course.
Oh yea I’m not saying they haven’t pulled plenty of bullshit to justify mistrialat a minimum.
But this particular article, they DID share the witness list. They just didn’t share the order they’ll call the witnesses. Normally a common courtesy between lawyers, but not required or anything.
A graduate of the Schiff, Schumer, Nadler school of fascist thought?
Due process is a joke in their ideological totalitarian camp.
This trial will be won or lost in the media ? Steinglass acts like it.
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