Posted on 05/25/2024 9:05:06 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Abstract artist Jackson Pollock once said that his paintings have no objective meaning, so the best way for people to enjoy them is to stop looking for it. For many of us, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has created a new school of abstract law where there is no need for objective meaning. The jury is simply supposed to enjoy it for what it is: a chance to convict Donald Trump. Pollock was famous for his painting drips on large canvases. Bragg has achieved the same effect by regenerating a dead misdemeanor on falsifying business records as 34 felony counts. To achieve that extraordinary goal, he has alleged that the document violations (which expired long ago under the statute of limitations) were committed to hide some other crime. .... As it stands, there are three crimes that have been referenced by prosecutors: state and federal election violations and taxation violations. Bragg’s legal vision for non-objective indictments was greatly advanced by Judge Juan Merchan, who will allow the jury to reach different rulings on what crime is actually evident in Bragg’s paint splatters. Merchan has even ruled that the jurors can disagree on what actually occurred in terms of the second crime. This means there could be three groups of four jurors, with one believing that there was a conspiracy to conceal a state election violation, another believing there was a federal election violation (which Bragg cannot enforce), and a third believing there was a tax violation, respectively. Nonetheless, Merchan will treat that as a unanimous verdict. In other words, they could look at the indictment and see vastly different shapes, but still send Trump to prison on their interpretations.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Sadly, Trump will be found GUILTY BY ALL! The jurors KNOW they will be HUNTED DOWN and RUINED!!
THAT”S WHAT DEMOCRATS DO.....RUIN PEOPLE!
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Just finished watching “Fall of Minneapolis”. Democrat playbook for justice in America. I wish I could disagree with you.
www.thefallofminneapolis.com
Mr. Turley is as fine a creative writer as a legal scholar. “Abstract Law” is quite the apt turn of phrase.
Merchan seems to believe that the US justice system operates with the worst features of the Napoleonic Code. That is, guilty until proven innocent. "The old is the new new." Will that succeed? Nobody knows what this jury is going to do. If you look at betting markets, opinion is divided.
One argument is that the 34 counts against Trump are identical except for the dates, so the jury "should" understand that they are all equally bogus. However, according to news stories, jury instructions (which have not been issued yet) will be designed to produce a guilty verdict.
I think if FR posters were honest, they would admit they don't know what is going to happen. Turley says a hung jury is most likely, but he can't see the future either.
The two lawyers will disappoint you. They’re in the sack too.
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Along with giving he jury 8 day break in which I’m sure they will be watching and reading the news, getting lip service from family and friends. The Jury should have been sequestered from the beginning, if not at least to take leave to come to a decision.
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