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Merchan just delivered the coup de grace instruction ( what?)
Jonathan Turley ^

Posted on 05/29/2024 8:23:32 AM PDT by janetjanet998

Merchan just delivered the coup de grace instruction. He said that there is no need to agree on what occurred. They can disagree on what the crime was among the three choices. Thus, this means that they could split 4-4-4 and he will still treat them as unanimous

So a dead misdemeanor for falsifying business records was zapped back into life by alleging that under NY election law 17-152 it was done to influence the election by the unlawful means of falsification of business records. It is so circular as to produce vertigo. So the jury finds some documents were falsified to use the unlawful means of falsifying other documents. That is only one of three possible crimes and the jury does not have to agree on which was the basis for their conviction.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: calvinball; democratcalvinball; merchan; wetbackcur
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To: Brown Deer

Illegal


161 posted on 05/29/2024 10:30:04 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: All

Writing is on the NY wall.

The legal experts did no favors by pretending this Judge and NY Court had any interest whatsoever in Justice.

It should’ve been called out from the beginning.

Daughter’s total has to be $120 Million by now.

Daddy is advising her to hide the total.


162 posted on 05/29/2024 10:30:06 AM PDT by OakOak (Misinformation Campaign on your TV)
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To: combat_boots

There is no legal or illegal in America any longer. There is simply the exercise of power.


163 posted on 05/29/2024 10:31:39 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (We have not yet achieved peak crazy)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Truth


164 posted on 05/29/2024 10:33:16 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: Jeff Chandler

How quickly can this be overturned on appeal


165 posted on 05/29/2024 10:34:27 AM PDT by BigEdLB
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To: Brown Deer

If some jurors believe that Trump falsified business documents solely to cover up a tax crime, while others believe that he falsified business documents solely to cover up an election crime, the jury can still convict Trump on the felony-level falsifying-documents charges, despite disagreeing on the predicate crimes

But without the “other crime” the case would only be as misdemeanor with statue of limitations running out in 2019 and we wouldn’t even be here

So how can he be found guilty of a falsifying records if any of the other crimes are not each unanimous?

Don’t you have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a particular felony crime occurred?


166 posted on 05/29/2024 10:35:21 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: Yo-Yo

Hawaii said it is no longer bound by US law, but by tribal tradition. What was done?

Why would NY be any different?


167 posted on 05/29/2024 10:36:22 AM PDT by redgolum
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To: pollywog

Really?

I want you to think long and hard about that.

The GOP has a problem. Do you keep Trump or not?


168 posted on 05/29/2024 10:40:16 AM PDT by redgolum
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To: redgolum

Trump or nothing. All of you squishes GTH. All of you.


169 posted on 05/29/2024 10:41:10 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: janetjanet998

Here’s What Could Happen If Trump Is Found Guilty in the Stormy Daniels Case
PJ Media ^ | 05/29/2024 | Matt Vespa:

According to conservative radio host Mark Levin, in the event of a guilty verdict, Trump could seek a direct appeal to the Supreme Court.

“I asked my friend of nearly 45-years [sic], Arthur Fergenson, who served as a law clerk to the late chief justice, Warren Burger, and one of the smartest lawyers I know, if he represented President Trump how he might seek a direct appeal to the Supreme Court if necessary,” Levin wrote in a post on X/Twitter.

Levin posted Fergenson’s reply.

The US Supreme Court can act by its statutory writs of certiorari to take a case from a lower appellate court, and the Court also has a host of other processes, often called common law writs. I became acquainted with these common law writs (actually authorized as a general matter by the Judiciary Act of 1789: law.justia.com/constitution/u… ), when IBM sought review of a discovery order by a vindictive federal judge when I was clerking for Chief Justice Warren Burger. A total of six petitions were filed; all were denied, and rarely are any common law writs ever issued by the Supreme Court, but there are, nonetheless, multiple ways to offer the Supreme Court an opportunity to forthwith review.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/05/29/heres-what-could-happen-if-trump-is-found-guilty-n4929407#google_vignette

BREAKING: The Biden-Harris team is holding a press conference outside the courthouse where Trump’s trial is taking place

They’re openly taunting him—almost boasting about the fact that this case was ordered by them!


170 posted on 05/29/2024 10:42:09 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (“If voting made any difference, they wouldn't allow us to vote!” )
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To: janetjanet998
Biden would have his “Trump is a convicted felon “ campaign talk

Even if DJT were "convicted" of only one count, Biden is ready to call a white house presser to say we have to respect the verdict, notwithstanding the fact that Merchan manipulated and deceived the jury.

171 posted on 05/29/2024 10:42:52 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: janetjanet998

Merchan doesn’t care. His objective is to help Biden get elected at any cost.

In other words, Merchan, Bragg and Biden are conspiring to commit a federal election crime.


172 posted on 05/29/2024 10:43:13 AM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: central_va

What I want, and you want, has no bearing on what the people picking the candidates want.

That is my point.

I am not a Trump fan. That is true. However he is the best candidate we got at this point.

But the intel boys and girls really, really, hate Trump. They will remove him from the board. This trial was done with that in mind, and judging by the polls it failed. There are a few other things to try, but it wouldn’t be the first time an unacceptable candidate was removed by the establishment.

Only two questions remain. What will be the way they do it? What will be the response?

The latter has to be the thing keeping a lot of people up at night.


173 posted on 05/29/2024 10:45:08 AM PDT by redgolum
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To: Grampa Dave

says they are on the way to Philly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEBrq9kLJ4M


174 posted on 05/29/2024 10:46:04 AM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: redgolum
Do you keep Trump or not?

Yes. Why is that a question for you?

175 posted on 05/29/2024 10:52:30 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Red Badger

From what I read, the same four can vote to convict on all three and that’s good enough.


176 posted on 05/29/2024 10:56:42 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. - M. Thatcher)
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To: RoseofTexas

It appears so.


177 posted on 05/29/2024 10:57:55 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. - M. Thatcher)
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To: Vendome

Deep State is running the show.


178 posted on 05/29/2024 10:59:11 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: redgolum
They will remove him from the board.

You are not convincing, Nostradamus. If you had posted, "I believe..." that would have been better.

179 posted on 05/29/2024 10:59:24 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
The way I read it is they can all vote guilty of something but not necessarily all of the same thing...........

IOW, say six of them say he's guilty of counts 2, 5 and 21, and four say he's guilty of 3, 10 and 15 and two say he's guilty of 6, 18 and 34. Then by the judge's instruction he's guilty of all................

180 posted on 05/29/2024 11:03:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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