Posted on 05/30/2024 10:34:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If the five-woman, seven-man jury doesn't find Donald Trump guilty of the alleged bookkeeping mistakes, it will be a miracle. This is because the 55-page final jury instructions that attorneys saw only moments before the judge read them in court on Wednesday is a "directed verdict" to Trump's guilt. That's it. That's why an uncharacteristically somber Trump announced that even "Mother Teresa couldn't beat these charges." See his comments below.
The "fix is in," as one notable former U.S. attorney decreed. "This is most corrupt judicial proceeding in the history of the United States," former District of Columbia U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova told WMAL.
Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz agrees that the fix is in. "The judge essentially instructed the jury to convict Trump," he titled his video.
As I've said, jury instructions are key to understanding what the chances are of an acquittal or hung jury.
The most bizarre and worrisome thing about these instructions to the jury is that the judge gave jurors an a la carte menu of three choices — three crimes on which jurors may decide for themselves, individually, not unanimously what they think were Trump's motivations for making 34 bookkeeping notations. All Trump's complicity involves, and I'm not making this up, is if he may have been motivated to win the 2016 election, which means they can conclude he's guilty of a federal or state campaign law, or that he violated a tax law, for which there was no evidence offered.
The only thing they must agree unanimously on are the 34 charged indictments. Prosecutors have hidden the ball on these predicate crime options since they were announced.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Here’s where I knew the FIX was BLATANT:
One of Alvin Bragg’s theories was alluded to in his accompanying letter to the charges. And it’s why, the Trump team tried to put on expert witness Brad Smith, who was the former head of the Federal Elections Commission. Smith was to explain why Trump’s legal payments to Michael Cohen weren’t campaign expenses and why he, as the chairman of the FEC, turned down the request to jack up Trump on charges for them.
In a gasp-inducing decision, Merchan said he would not allow Smith to do anything other than verify definitions of words without offering expert opinion on campaign law. The Trump team decided not to bother. It should have because it may have gotten some leading questions in there, and who knows what would have happened.
Merchan said he didn’t want to “confuse” the jurors because he’s the arbiter of the law. Merchan is not an expert on campaign law. The decision not to put on Smith and take their chances might be the defense’s biggest blunder.
Law Professor Jonathan Turley writes from inside Merchan’s court:
<><>The jury has been given little substantive judicial assistance to consider,
<><>Merchan even denied the jury a legal expert’s input,
<><>that there was no federal election violation,
<><>that required dismissal for (a) lack of evidence, or, (b) lack of a recognizable crime.
And now we know why: this Judge is not going to assist
a case when his daughter. a Democrat consultant, has $125 Million in fees on the line, and is being given access to his court documents.
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Mention state and zip to be connected.
So confusing is the unique New York process of jury instructions that within the first afternoon of getting the case, the jury wisely asked, Hey, judge, can you tell us about those instructions again?
That's because the jury is forbidden from having a copy of the jury instructions. They're expected to remember them or get a re-reading of the instructions, which is what happened Thursday morning.
IF I WERE ON A JURY THAT GOT 55 PAGES OF GOBBLY GOOK, I WOULD VOTE NOW GUILTY IN AN INSTANT.
IF I WERE ON A JURY THAT GOT 55 PAGES OF GOBBLY GOOK, I WOULD VOTE NOT GUILTY IN AN INSTANT.
This is not American justice.
Outrageous. But we all knew the fix was in. What I see most infuriating is the jury and defense was NEVER told what the actual crimes were. But TUH DUH. Out pops Super Merchan to say what the crimes were AFTER the trial minutes before deliberation. And when Biden is reinstalled this Merchan punk will be on the supreme court. God help us.
The last time I was about to be seated as a juror, the judge asked each of us if we would be willing to follow his jury instructions. I told the judge that I could not make that promise because it would depend on what the jury instructions were. I started to show cases where the jury instructions led to an unjust verdict, and the judge dismissed me as a juror.
Interestingly, I used to get called for jury duty every year. I haven’t been called since. I guess I’m on a list.
“The decision not to put on Smith and take their chances might be the defense’s biggest blunder”
That’s a really good comment.
A Leftist lawyer would have put him on and pushed the envelope.
Merchan doing this will still be overturned. But it might not have gotten to that if Smith had testified. Merchan would be put in the position of having to strike his testimony, but it would be out there.
Congress needs to pass a law making it a crime to profit on a case being tried.
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this is about the same as selling seats to a fund raising dinner?
IS. THERE. NO. JUDICIAL. OVERSIGHT. IN. NEW. YORK.
HOW can this crook be allowed to be a judge????? Every single case he has ever presided over needs to be overturned.
I suspect that these proceedings are very much in favor of both Trump and the US judicial system.
Because: he entire trial is an “in your face” violation of Constitutional rights. It is also corruption, in your face, of the worst kind that the judge’s daughter it profiting in a really big way from this trial. What is occurring there is equal in corruption, if not in dollars, to Hunter Biden’s corruption.
This trial along with the woman judge who stated in court that there is no 2Nd Amendment in her courtroom, should convince all that the NY judicial system is rotten to the core, otherwise both she and Merchan would have been removed from the bench long ago.Remember, it is Trump today and you or me shortly.
I think that when this is all over, there will be meany judges removed.
And I suspect that is why Trump is goading the prosecution in his various cases. Most people are very careful to not offend the judge, as doing so can make your punishment more painful.. Trump is daring them. Not many have that kind of courage.
Get more popcorn and a comforatable chair.
They made sure people like us aren’t on the jury.
A road map for a loss on appeal and proof that the judge is a judicial bimbo.
The Devil will 'turn round' soon enough and there will be nowhere to hide.
Send me the list. I’ll use it next time. :>)
After yesterday’s instructions only 4 jurors could convict Trump. Same 4 on each of the 3 alleged criminal violations. Is that the way you see it?
Jury Tampering , arrest him
It was all tightly coordinated from start to finish.
Judge and Bragg ex-parte meetings.
There is no other way. The charges were hidden to the very end.
Trump was not allowed to call witnesses in his defense
Non-unanimity allowed on the crime committed.
The Prosecutor was allowed to tell the Jury things that were not in evidence in the trial.
Judge’s daughter raised over $100 Million on daddy’s trial
Judge pointed the Jury to specific evidence rather than telling them to consider all the evidence and testimony presented at Trial.
To hide charges is to prevent the defendant from defending themself.
Yet another exaggeration by a “journalist.” As in most states, New York has Standard Criminal Jury Instructions [CJI] which all parties have access to. In addition, both the defense and the prosecution submit their own proposed instructions to the court. The court, the prosecution , and the defense then hash out which instructions to submit to the jury. There is no surprise to either party what the final jury instructions are.
There is an overwhelming amount of evidence that the judge is in the tank for the prosecution and Trump is being persecuted. The journalist here, does this contemptible situation a disservice by making things up.
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