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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I'm going to give you a lawyer answer: yes and no.

I defended a case where my client received a large amount of cocaine by the US mail. The shipping box had his address but not his name. The whole case came down to intent, dominion and control. The idiot cops were tipped off by the Feds that there was a box of drugs headed to my client's address, so the cops raided my client's house immediately after he took the box inside. They didn't wait for him to open the box and do something with the contents like cutting the coke and repackaging it. I argued that the Commonwealth could not show that my client had the intent to engage in possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance because 1) the box wasn't addressed to him; 2)he never exercised dominion and control of the contents etc. I went as far as saying if the Court ruled against my client it would be a clarion call to all to send boxes of contraband to unwitting enemies with the intent of having them arrested. The Court itself would not be immune from being a victim. Case dismissed.

Depending upon what Trump and his agents did prior to and after receipt of the boxes, the aforesaid scenario could play out favorably for Trump.

39 posted on 05/04/2024 12:29:01 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: thegagline

This was not an anonymous delivery. This was NARA dumping the documents on Trump and forcing him to take possession. Now NARA wants to claim Trump has illegal possession of said documents?

On what planet did anything Trump did constitute a crime, never mind that the President decides what is classified and not some administrative state bureaucrat?


40 posted on 05/04/2024 12:40:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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