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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

Turley and Bream are both establishment pollyannaish buffoons.


61 posted on 06/01/2024 11:40:45 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: McGruff

I won’t hold my breath on it being over turned at the NY level.


62 posted on 06/01/2024 11:41:15 AM PDT by pas
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To: central_va

Please see my related #48.


63 posted on 06/01/2024 11:44:08 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: GOPJ

I guess jury nullification only works if the defendant is of the right class, race and political persuasion. Think OJ.


64 posted on 06/01/2024 11:45:21 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Bob434

one of those ‘damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t’ scenarios i think?

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Trump critics think there are good people out there ready to serve, if only Trump would pick the right patriots. (Patriots aren’t immune from blackmail & $$$$$.)

They’re naive and don’t know how the Anglo-American Establishment operates in the United States.

Everything is for sale for this cabal.


65 posted on 06/01/2024 11:47:10 AM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: McGruff

Unless the USSC can be induced to emergencily intervene DJT will be hustled off to Riker’s Island on July 11 where there will be much better opportunity to finally eliminate the threat of a Trump presidency. Epstein was made to be very quiet quickly after he was incarcerated. The Rulers see Trump as the same sort of threat, the threat to expose and bring down many very powerful government officials, congressmen, senators et al. The threat of MAGA is much more serious.


66 posted on 06/01/2024 11:52:21 AM PDT by arthurus (covfefe Be)
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To: McGruff

All of Trump’s attorney’s in the court room should have raised objections until they were blue in the face. They should have defied the judge and ask questions even after being denied to asked the questions. They should have pointed out to the jury the conflict of interest of the acting judge and his daughter’s business.

Of course the judges would hold them in contempt of court. Even Trump should have ignored the gag order.

Something to get a mistrial declared.


67 posted on 06/01/2024 11:53:57 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: shotgun

“All of Trump’s attorney’s in the court room should have raised objections until they were blue in the face. They should have defied the judge and ask questions even after being denied to asked the questions. They should have pointed out to the jury the conflict of interest of the acting judge and his daughter’s business.”

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You’re right, but do you think that would have changed the minds of THAT jury in the end? This case was rigged from the get go and nothing was going to change the outcome.


68 posted on 06/01/2024 12:00:00 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: arthurus

Which is why it is important to pick a VP now. As long as they support Trump policies. How do you run against someone like JD Vance or DeSantis if you are a senile, pants crapping, child molesting commander in chief?


69 posted on 06/01/2024 12:22:29 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: McGruff

What is remarkable is that there are thousands of NDA’s and hush money payments made each year by businesses and politicians. They are booked as “legal expenses”, so how is Trump charged with falsification of business records? Now where were the investigations to all other politicians who paid hush money? What precisely did they do differently from what Trump did? In this Rube Goldberg legal contraption - anyone can be accused of this, in many different types of payments made. It is up to the whim of the political party in power which happens to be Democrat.

If hush money payments are a felony, Bill Clinton would be buried under the jail.

Hillary paid a little fine when her Russian dossier money came up as a legal expense. No trial, no court where bogus judges allow the discussion of irrelevant sex acts, just quietly pay a fine, while interfering with an election.


70 posted on 06/01/2024 12:25:36 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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To: kaktuskid

If Trump is neutralized before August with a good VP already chosen, if the VP is judged to be dangerous to the Rulers he will be killed more directly and quickly, a sniper, say, or a shootdown of an airplane that would be reported as an engine explosion or a Terrorist attack.


71 posted on 06/01/2024 12:54:32 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe Bi)
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To: McGruff

“The problem was not the jury”

BULLCRAP. Everything about this was tainted and part of the democrat party scheme to eliminate Trump “by any means possible.”


72 posted on 06/01/2024 12:56:03 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: jeffersondem

Or just a fine and community service?

Does working as President of the United Ststes for free constitute community service???


73 posted on 06/01/2024 12:58:52 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left )
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To: Organic Panic

“BULLCRAP. Everything about this was tainted “

Absolutely true.

What we will find out in the future is that the “jurors” had connections, just like we started hearing about Lorena Merchan only when the trial started.

The IC and the Garfinkel DoJ wouldn’t leave the jurors up to chance in something like this.


74 posted on 06/01/2024 1:10:27 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: central_va

That’s ONLY because we take the high road against democrat filth. It’s time for us to get in the gutter with democrat filth and fight on their level


75 posted on 06/01/2024 1:21:51 PM 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: bert
New York court of Appeals......... not a valid legal appartus for a Trump appeal

"appartus?" Please explain.

76 posted on 06/01/2024 1:42:45 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Carriage Hill
Exactly.....another legal expert advised not to expect too much from a New York Appeals Court - reckons they are all afraid of the socialist judiciary in that state.

Hope he is wrong.

77 posted on 06/01/2024 1:51:17 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Churchillspirit

A NY appeals court reduced Trump’s required deposit for Engoron by a 9 digit amount, but that wasn’t a criminal case.


78 posted on 06/01/2024 1:59:31 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: baclava

“black, woke, women, judges, ALL of them.”

I saw the picture of the judges in an earlier post but haven’t been able to find it on the internet. The picture shocked me. I’d like a link to verify it’s real.


79 posted on 06/01/2024 2:10:53 PM PDT by cymbeline (we saw men break out of a concentration camp.”)
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To: McGruff

No. No. No.


80 posted on 06/01/2024 2:12:57 PM PDT by Fledermaus (We Are Now In A Civil War!)
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