Trump's lawyers did a very good job working in a highly unfair forum with a cheery picked corrupt Judge who was in the tank with a conspiracy to rail road Trump.
The jury was either similarly in the tank to convict Trump or they were so biased that they were going to convict Trump no matter what.
The two lawyers would never work again in NYC if there was hung jury and the rest of the jurors would be ostracized if they held out on a conviction.
Most have dreams of lucrative book deals recounting how they got Trump and they may have been noticed of potential book deals before the trial even started.
Conviction was a foregone conclusion before the trial even started. Any false hope that there might be a hung jury was due to the insane trial and the fact that any normal person could not in their wildest dream believe any self respecting juror would convict on the case the prosecution presented.
As it is, this trial is and always has been a bad joke and a side show to the more serious litigation in the SCOTUS and in the Florida trial. The Bragg Case pretty much validates all the concerns about potential political prosecutions by political enemies raised with and by SCOTUS and I think it is safe to speculate that this fact was not lost on Trump's lawyers. .
It’s a Corrupt system.
They’ll raid and imprison his lawyers, and they’ll move to disbar.
Did they raid Rudy Giuliani?
Lawyers aren’t going to be interested. The Corrupt system is the issue.
That’s not what Dershowitz is saying at all. He isn’t say they did a bad job at trial, he is saying they did not properly preserve issues for appeal. I have no idea if that is right or not.