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Bragg’s thrill kill in Manhattan could prove short-lived on appeal
The Hill ^ | June 6, 2024 | Jonathan Turley

Posted on 06/01/2024 9:44:32 AM PDT by McGruff

The conviction of former President Donald Trump in Manhattan of 34 felonies produced citywide celebrations.

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The celebrants would be wise to think twice before mounting this trophy kill on the political wall. The Trump trial is a target-rich environment for an appeal, with multiple layers of reversible error, in my view.

I am less convinced by suggestions that the case could be challenged on the inability of Trump receiving a fair trial in a district that voted roughly 90 percent against him. The problem was not the jury, but the prosecutors and the judge.

Some of the most compelling problems can be divided into four groups.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bragg; hushmoneytrial; reversible; reversibleerror; trump; trumpconviction; trumppersecution
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To: McGruff

No. Turkey is an opinionated eunuch with zero influence.


21 posted on 06/01/2024 10:16:42 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: GOPJ

I agree with you, but the fact is the republicans are a bunch of whineing cowards that that follow the communist line than doing anything on their own.


22 posted on 06/01/2024 10:17:33 AM PDT by Ronald77
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To: McGruff

Ping


23 posted on 06/01/2024 10:20:41 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim (C)
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To: GOPJ

Anything that was done that benefits someone personally that could also be said to benefit them politically apparently can be made into a crime. Have a bad headache that might influence how you would feel and appear on the campaign trail? Taking an aspirin might help get rid of that headache - but it didn’t just make you feel better, you also likely benefited politically while on the campaign trail because of that, too...did you properly disclose the purchase of the bottle of aspirin on your campaign statements? No? Felony! Did you voluntarily disclose the fact you had a headache publicly? No? That’s a conspiracy!


24 posted on 06/01/2024 10:23:26 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: packagingguy
Banana republics are bad for business: Shark Tank star KEVIN O’LEARY reveals the shocking impact Trump’s verdict will have on your family’s finances
TPTB behind this atrocity are jonesing for a nuclear exchange with Russia.

Do you think they GAD whether or not things are "bad for business"?

25 posted on 06/01/2024 10:25:29 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: mel

If Trump is reelected and Dems take the house... I fully expect them to impeach Trump a 3rd time over this!

LMAO


26 posted on 06/01/2024 10:27:30 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: McGruff

Turley does a lot of talking. On the other hand, Trump’s lawyers don’t seem so good either.


27 posted on 06/01/2024 10:28:07 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: McGruff
...The problem was not the jury...

The odds of this judge getting all three Trump cases is one out 20000. I'd not be surprised if the fix was in with the jury as well, especially because any reasonable person would conclude they did not prove guilt beyond a shadow of a doubt.

28 posted on 06/01/2024 10:30:36 AM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: GOPJ
The whole problem with your solution is that none of those trials would be held in cities where an impartial jury could be found. We would lose all of them.

And let's forget about CWII and about how the left will cower in their cellars when the shooting starts. CWII is already on, and we're the ones cowering in our cellars in front of our TV sets, and with our communist made toys that we bought from Amazon.

The only option available to us now is to hit them where it hurts, their wallets. Boycott them and their media in every way possible. It's something we can do right now, without having to organize, and without having to go to any rallies that the left can infiltrate.

If we can't even do that, then we won't last very long when the shooting starts.

29 posted on 06/01/2024 10:31:30 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: Huskrrrr
“Doesn't matter, Trump will always be referred to as a convicted felon. Mission accomplished.”

The term “convicted felon” had more sting before it was applied to Trump than after.

Who cares about - or even uses - the term “twice-impeached president?” No one. It was once a dreaded term but lost its effect when everyone came to understand it was a Dimocrat scam.

Same with “34 felonies.” Use of the term felon regarding Trump from now on will incite disgust for the user and admiration for Trump.

Of course I am talking about the reaction of normal Americans, not New York City residents and other Dimocrats.

30 posted on 06/01/2024 10:32:15 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem

I predicted that President Trump would forever be referred to as “impeached President Trump,” but MSM must have realized that also applied to their hero, Bill Clinton, whose wife was still in the game via his coattails.


31 posted on 06/01/2024 10:35:33 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: gov_bean_ counter
“Even lib tv lawyers are saying this is a mess. The appellate court is going to be conflicted between hate and law.”

It will be interesting how the so-called judge sentences Trump.

Will he throw the book at him - 34 convictions X 4 years?

Or just a fine and community service?

Probably for the first time in his life the so-called judge will try to moderate his blood-lust and split the baby.

Having gotten himself into the history books, the last thing the so-called judge wants to do is to create an even bigger sympathy wave for Trump before November. According to one long-time Dimocrat, Trump's new CIA will have six ways to Sunday . . .

32 posted on 06/01/2024 10:44:12 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: Republican Wildcat

If we hate them as much as they hate us we can do what they do.

And now, we hate democrats as much as they hate us. And how to we know they’re hated? By their actions. We will act with hatred like they do. And speak the cheap words of kindliness like they do. Actions matter - the tree is known by it’s fruit.

And while we’re at it, we need to form groups with that function as ‘foundations’ with the privilege of being nonprofits. And get grants to subsidize our hatred for liberal ‘elites’... and work against them as our life’s meaning and goal. All the while - again using the cheap words of ‘compassion’.

That’s what they do... and we can do it too.

Running lowlife trash like Bragg for office shouldn’t be hard either. Look for the folks who graduated near the bottom of their laws school class and who were ‘accepted to law school based on Color, Kink, or Kin and we’ve got a Soros type pick without morals and understanding of the majesty of the law.

If we hire a “Bragg type” he’ll be more than willing to pull down his pants and take a dump on the Constitution - and we need that type. A decent person wouldn’t want to do what democrat office holders, judges etc do to us - so we need to find THEIR type. Pay ‘em more than they’ll go after democrats like they go after us.


33 posted on 06/01/2024 10:44:26 AM PDT by GOPJ (Our legal system's a drunk whore dancing for democrats stuffing dollar bills up her filthy twat.)
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To: GOPJ

“And no one should back down because we don’t want to be as bad as they are... we need to stick it to them and not let up for years. Just like they did to Trump. And we need to jail their ‘protesters’. Label everything an ‘insurrection;. Be them.Turn their style of hate back on them. Never let up. YOU see a democrat - you have an enemy.”

Right you are, GOPJ.

We ned to fight them in the weeds and mud, hard and unrelenting. Beat thdeir sorry asses at the game they’ve beaten us at, for decades.

But, we won’t.


34 posted on 06/01/2024 10:46:12 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: McGruff

I saw who gets the first turn on appeal. Not promising.


35 posted on 06/01/2024 10:50:55 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: MtnClimber
The US congress has a hush money fund. We should demand that records be released immediately.

And if they won't release them (and they won't) we need to offer large sums of money for the "abused" woman or boy toy of a democrat office holder... The winner getting a hundred grand and anything we can get from the court system.

Soros is the funder for filth and we need to find a funder to expose democrats and their butt boys in the press. We need to do what they do... Larry Flynt of Hustler Magazine did this years ago - offered big rewards for dirt on congressmen who had affairs. Then had to tell the hundreds of women who called that he was only going after Republicans not democrats. So there is a precedent for this too...

Anything democrats have done to us we need to do to them.

Demcorats are the party of the KKK, commies, Hamas and criminals so really, why are holding back?

36 posted on 06/01/2024 10:53:11 AM PDT by GOPJ (Our legal system's a drunk whore dancing for democrats stuffing dollar bills up her filthy twat.)
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To: Carriage Hill

Demcorats are the party of the KKK, commies, Hamas and criminals so really, why are holding back?


37 posted on 06/01/2024 10:55:05 AM PDT by GOPJ (Our legal system's a drunk whore dancing for democrats stuffing dollar bills up her filthy twat.)
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To: Huskrrrr

+This*


38 posted on 06/01/2024 10:56:31 AM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in 5.)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

If we gin up hatred like they’ve done in Manhattan and DC we can get courts run by men as biased and manipulative as they are.

Yes, it’ll take a while - maybe years but we’ve got to start with a goal...

Democrats are the party of the KKK, commies, Hamas and criminals so really, why are holding back?


39 posted on 06/01/2024 10:58:16 AM PDT by GOPJ (Our legal system's a drunk whore dancing for democrats stuffing dollar bills up her filthy twat.)
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To: McGruff

New York court of Appeals......... not a valid legal appartus for a Trump appeal


40 posted on 06/01/2024 10:58:25 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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