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Corrupt Judge Merchan Sides with Bragg’s Prosecutors, Rules Jury DOES NOT Need to Unanimously Agree on “Predicate” Crimes in Trump ‘Hush Money’ Case
Gateway Pundit ^ | May 24, 2024 | Cristina Laila

Posted on 05/24/2024 9:45:25 PM PDT by lowbridge

Corrupt and biased Judge Juan Merchan has so far refused to release the jury instructions to the public after Bragg’s prosecutors and Trump’s attorneys sparred over the order during a conference earlier this week.

Jury instructions can make or break a case for either side.

No doubt Judge Merchan’s jury instructions “will be horrendously poisonous” Mark Levin said earlier this week.

Judge Merchan however sided with Bragg’s prosecutors and ruled the jury does NOT need to unanimously agree on the “predicate” crime Trump committed.

“In other words: 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.” Politico’s Josh Gerstein wrote.

Alvin Bragg indicted Trump in April 2023 on 34 felony counts related to ‘hush payments’ he made to Stormy Daniels.

Trump was accused of paying porn star Stormy Daniels, AKA, Stephanie Clifford, ‘hush payments’ through his then-attorney Michael Cohen in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the National Enquirer.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arrestjuanmerchan; bragg; hushmoneytrial; judicialsedition; merchan; mistrial; newyork; showtrial; trump; trumppersecution
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1 posted on 05/24/2024 9:45:25 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

There are no words......


2 posted on 05/24/2024 9:49:52 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: lowbridge

It seems that this is worthy of “Breaking News”. IMHO


3 posted on 05/24/2024 9:51:10 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: lowbridge

Pure BS sitting in a robe so he will follow his masters orders to get a conviction


4 posted on 05/24/2024 9:53:12 PM PDT by patriotspride (Third generation Vet. Never forget the true cost of freedom)
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To: lowbridge

There has to be two reasons to falsify the records.

There is no starting charge of second degree falsification of the records unless it was for fraudulent. But if there was no ulterior motive it was not fraudulent. The felony extension would then have to include an additional reason they were falsified which was criminal.

So two reasons total and one of them must be a crime—or not first degree charge. And the second degree charge has expired so no second degree charge.

The instructions are false on the face of them.


5 posted on 05/24/2024 9:57:37 PM PDT by AndyTheBear (Certified smarter than average for my species)
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To: patriotspride
Pure BS sitting in a robe so he will follow his masters orders to get a conviction.

He knows how much he will get paid for the conviction and he is not about to miss out on that pile of cash.

6 posted on 05/24/2024 9:58:11 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: lowbridge

Wow, we get to see what lawfare is like in Cuba without all the Cubans.


7 posted on 05/24/2024 10:00:20 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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8 posted on 05/24/2024 10:04:42 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: laplata
The root of the "crime" is "falsifying records"

Trump "falsified records"

Which to date is unproven.

9 posted on 05/24/2024 10:08:52 PM PDT by knarf (BEC)
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To: lowbridge

Like a good RAT, he makes the rules as he goes along.


10 posted on 05/24/2024 10:10:15 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: lowbridge

Newt Gingrich was on Hannity a few weeks ago, saying that in a perfect world, the Supreme Court would jump in and nullify this entire case because of how egregious the judge and prosecution has been throughout. I wonder if something like that is possible?


11 posted on 05/24/2024 10:10:23 PM PDT by Joann37
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One would think there might be a court somewhere below the level of he SCOTUS that cared about how ridiculous Merchan and Bragg are making the entire justice system look.


12 posted on 05/24/2024 10:17:26 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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I’ve always been a fan of Jury Nullification....

But with corrupt leftist black-robed Judiciarchs like Merchan, it is a long road to hoe for anyone to get justice.


13 posted on 05/24/2024 10:22:34 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: lowbridge

This judge is going to make sure trump is convicted of something so the Biden team can go after trump for it and of course cancel the debate with Biden saying he won’t debate a convicted felon


14 posted on 05/24/2024 10:29:33 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: lowbridge

Cartel stooge Juan “Wetback Cur” Merchan is delivering for his south-of-the-border puppeteers.


15 posted on 05/24/2024 10:30:34 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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Pure BS sitting in a robe so he will follow his masters orders to get a conviction

aka "Wetback Cur"

16 posted on 05/24/2024 10:31:41 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: lowbridge

Just makin it up as they go

Should never have been allowed to proceed


17 posted on 05/24/2024 11:10:03 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: lowbridge

So NY is a banana republic and since it’s a state in the USA, that makes the USA a banana republic.

Corrupt judges like this should look into what happens to corrupt judges in banana republics.


18 posted on 05/25/2024 12:38:45 AM PDT by Boomer (If the Nazi-Rats and Rinos win, everyone loses. The Uniparty can no longer claim they are American.)
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To: lowbridge

Prosecutorial judge Merchan is going for all the marbles on this one - a felony conviction because it is the predicate crime that lifts what would otherwise be a misdemeanor conviction to a felony conviction. He knows he will be reversed on appeal on this but so will he be reversed on the ton of reversible error he already made to get the biased jury to where they want to be, i.e., to convict Trump of a felony before the election. He wants to turn this over to the DNC cooperative media to ply the convicted felon narrative until election day.


19 posted on 05/25/2024 1:10:58 AM PDT by chuckee
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Why do you think Merchan would not let the former FEC chairman testify that this was not an illegal contribution. Precisely because it would upset his plan to give the biased jury a lesser standard of proof for them to establish it was an illegal contribution. The guy is a complete dirtbag


20 posted on 05/25/2024 1:16:13 AM PDT by chuckee
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