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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: janetjanet998

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21 posted on 05/29/2024 8:32:35 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Jeff Chandler

I think there will be a guilty verdict because I think the jurors have been screened in advance. and key defense testimony has not been admitted. Biden and the MSM will say nothing except “Guilty Felon”. It will be overturned on appeal, but that won’t happen until the election is over.


22 posted on 05/29/2024 8:32:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: Red Badger

Multiple Choice Verdict. Will go down in jurist prudence history.


23 posted on 05/29/2024 8:33:34 AM PDT by mware
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To: janetjanet998

What?!

Is this even a valid instruction?

If I were a juror, whether it is Trump or someone else, I’d be questioning the Judge’s instruction. You can’t have 4-4-4 is reasonable doubt, not conviction.


24 posted on 05/29/2024 8:33:44 AM PDT by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))
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To: janetjanet998

It still leaves the possibility that one or more juror thinks no crime was proven beyond a reasonable doubt.


25 posted on 05/29/2024 8:34:03 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: janetjanet998

Surely, there is one honest appellate judge in NY who would overturn this Marxist, out-of-control trial judge.


26 posted on 05/29/2024 8:34:17 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: janetjanet998

Merchan is making up laws as he goes along. The SOB needs to be hauled out of the court and hauled up a street light.


27 posted on 05/29/2024 8:34:18 AM PDT by MeganC (Ruzzians aren't people. )
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To: Jeff Chandler
Waht are the chances a guilty verict will be overturned on appeal?

With the outrageous number of reversible errors "judge" Merchan has committed during the entire course of this trial, it should be 100%

28 posted on 05/29/2024 8:34:25 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: janetjanet998

Merchan was not born in the US. Is he a DEI appointment?


29 posted on 05/29/2024 8:34:35 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Jeff Chandler
It will 100% be overturned on appeal.

The goal here is to sully Trump with the "convicted felon" label prior to the election. The Democrats are in desperation mode to stick it to Trump. That's why the corrupt judge has kept his thumb on the scale the whole trial in order to ensure the jurors are highly encouraged to vote guilty.

I'm not a lawyer but I believe only federal trials require a unaminous verdict among the jurors (or otherwise its hung) and that states do not necessarily require the jurors to be unaminous to convict - crazy as it sounds.

30 posted on 05/29/2024 8:35:51 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (6,575,474 Truth | 87,429,044 Twitter)
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To: monkeyshine

I believe that 2 people on the jury are lawyers.

In my opinion, if those 2 lawyers see this as “beyond a reasonable doubt”, they ought to be disbarred.


31 posted on 05/29/2024 8:36:24 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: maro

DOH! Rule of law. We musta forgot. As usual, democommie/proglibs only apply laws they like or agree with. Everything else? NOT their problem.


32 posted on 05/29/2024 8:36:29 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: janetjanet998

Also keep in mind...Trump had no chance to win NY...so he did NOT do it to influence NY at all.


33 posted on 05/29/2024 8:37:11 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Bingo! This is what it’s all about. And the narrative will be continual on a loop over and over and over again. Really folks I see no redeeming grace for this nation anymore. When a Colombian immigrant can throw out all manner of law for a fair trial which was designed for fairness for the American citizens out the window we are in dire straits! Just picture it …a Colombian immigrant, breaking every rule in the books of law to convict a former president! This from the most corrupt nation on the face of this earth! Wrap your brain around that. If that piece of shit is not held accountable for this effing circus then we the American people are truly, stupid fat, lazy and gutless!


34 posted on 05/29/2024 8:37:37 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: janetjanet998

They really think we will accept this and do nothing.
Some will.
Many will not.
They won’t be able to walk the streets.


35 posted on 05/29/2024 8:37:49 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: janetjanet998; All

THOSE WHO MAKE PEACEFULL REVOULUTION IMPOSSIBLE, MAKE VIOLENT REVOLUTION INVEITAVBLE. Jfk.


36 posted on 05/29/2024 8:37:57 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: janetjanet998

Thank you for posting this critical information.


37 posted on 05/29/2024 8:38:01 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: janetjanet998

I’ve come to the conclusion that they KNOW this case is dead as soon as it hits the appeals court, so all they are trying for now is a get a conviction any way possible in the hope that it will do at least a little political damage to Trump and make it harder for him to campaign and travel in the meantime as technically he will be “convicted felon awaiting sentencing” until the appeals court throws it out.


38 posted on 05/29/2024 8:38:06 AM PDT by apillar
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To: MtnClimber
I think there will be a guilty verdict because I think the jurors have been screened in advance.

I think there will be a guilty verdict because the local community knows who the jurors are, and none of the jury wants to be known as the person who "let Trump off Scott free."

39 posted on 05/29/2024 8:38:17 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: janetjanet998

40 posted on 05/29/2024 8:38:25 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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