My thoughts are jumbled. I’m truly scared of what might happen if President Trump is convicted of any of these phony charges. I’m also hanging onto hope that the jury will hang.
There is reference to a rain metaphor...pretty stupid example
Judge Merchan has erred on the side of inclusion. There was a subsequent request to add more and he approved it. There is another note from the jury
The jury is asking for instructions on count one and how to deal with evidence and the inference to be drawn from evidence. He will read pages 7-35.
The inference instructions are interesting. It is not the corroboration or perjury material that would have presumably focused on Cohen. However, the inference sections would go to how much that can read into the implications of testimony. Much of Cohen’s testimony did not concretely establish knowledge or intent by Trump but the prosecutors insisted that they could infer from that evidence
Likewise, Pecker’s testimony tied his actions to the election and the question is how much can the jury infer from the accounts of the Trump Tower meeting that Trump knew and approved of this effort
I should have said better than good news. The corroboration and perjury instructions would have suggested that Cohen was the stumbling block. This goes to the question of weight that can be given to these accounts. Notably, they are asking for mostly Pecker’s account but also have a request for a Cohen passage
henry fonda white courtesy phone. henry fonda, white courtesy phone.
It’s an absolute travesty that the Judge won’t provide the jurors the written version his very complicated instructions.
Merchan wants vagary and emotionalism to reign in the jury’s deliberations.
Merchan has put his thumb on the scales of justice in this trial in many ways.
I’ll tell you exactly what is going on in the jury room. The two lawyers are aware that the no specific crime instructions are an issue. So they are trying to get everyone on the same page to take that uncertainty out of the question. Who ever heard of lawyers on a jury? It does not happen. Trump will be found guilty on all charges. The only question is if he goes to jail immediately or not.
Re-reading 29 of 55 pages of the jury instructions. That’s a boring start of the day.
Merchan is already counting the money he will get from the book, interviews, speeches and the honorary law degess that will be conferred by the sycophants. He may be disappointed.
I suspect Merchan’s vague instructions to get the jurors to convict on the felony were so confusing that some of the jurors
resorted to news accounts and cable commentary last night for a clue as to what the hell he was talking about.
https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=SyZBN_IYwE8
Here are President Trump’s arrival comments this morning from Youtube with transcript.
Trump is the first of the the Biden democrat party trials to happen if they can put Trump in prison.
The just us system in action aka democrat democracy.
Why doesn’t he give the jury a written copy?
Is a hung jury necessarily a good thing? I mean, if we get a hung jury and we get a mistrial, prosecution decides to retry the case. They keep dragging this thing around month after month, year after year. Is it better so simply get a verdict, then if guilty, immediately appeal?
Here and reading to catch up... Good morning!
So, are they teeing it up for Friday verdict announcements? Given the leftists, it would only make sense.
So, are they teeing it up for Friday verdict announcements? Given the leftists, it would only make sense.
BTTT!
If this jury is hung, and Bragg wants to bring another trial, there has been so much reversible error on the first, including the jury instructions, that precluded the jury from finding the defendant not guilty, why would the defense not take an immediate appeal to have the appellate court direct the trial court they must allow Trump’s FEC witness to testify, require prosecution to notify as to the specific statue they are alleging he violated as the predicate crime and modify the instructions to require that they must unanimously agree on the specific statute that was violated as the predicate crime. Else Merchan will be repeating the reversible error in the second trial in his efforts to get a felony conviction.
Prediction: If there is a hung jury, there will be a movement to punish holdout jurors — not just by doxxing them, but also with legal action.