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The missing element in Alvin Bragg's case
American Thinker ^ | 06/02/2024 | Mike McDaniel

Posted on 06/02/2024 9:36:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

There is something vital and profoundly disturbing missing from Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Donald Trump: police involvement.  It’s possible some police officers were assigned to the prosecutor’s office, but if so, their names do not appear in the indictment (available here), nor, according to The Hill, there were no police officers among the 20 prosecution and two defense witnesses. I’ve been unable to find any evidence of police participation.

Graphic: YouTube Screenshot

So, no cops were apparently involved. So what?

The police are an essential initiator of criminal charges. They’re also a multi-layered filter for false and/or political charges against the innocent. Among their many duties, police supervisors are charged with ensuring every charge made by an officer is legitimate, untainted by laziness, personal animus or political dirty tricks. Supervisors at the rank of Lt. and Captain serve as further filters, reviewing all paperwork submitted to prosecutors to ensure police integrity. Tainted, bad cases blow back on every police officer, making an already difficult job harder and more dangerous, and professional agencies take preserving their integrity seriously.

The criminal justice process is supposed to begin with the police, with a predicate—a reason—to investigate any crime. The predicate may be a citizen report of a crime, which followed up by detectives yields a suspect. It may be information from informants, but in that case, the police are careful to confirm that information; they don’t just take any informant’s word. Or a police officer may simply witness someone committing a crime.

It's essential this process is followed. Without it, officers may decide, without a predicate, someone needs to go to jail. Supervisors at every level may fail in filtering. Failing to involve the police also wastes their training, knowledge and experience.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: alvinbragg; hushmoney; trial; trump
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To: SeekAndFind

Bingo.


21 posted on 06/02/2024 10:26:54 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: SeekAndFind

What investigation? There was nothing to investigate.

Bragg manufactured charges from thin air, got a corrupt judge, a Trump hating jury, and presto.


22 posted on 06/02/2024 10:31:16 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well he’s not missing the Pinhead part


23 posted on 06/02/2024 10:58:12 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: wny

Just a minor little detail, right?


24 posted on 06/02/2024 12:54:25 PM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! There)
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To: SeekAndFind

The missing element in Alvin Bragg’s case

LAW


25 posted on 06/02/2024 1:01:21 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: SeekAndFind

So, what are you saying, Trump was never arrested for a crime.?? That being the case, how did he end up in court and who was the victim.??


26 posted on 06/02/2024 1:57:13 PM PDT by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: SeekAndFind

btt


27 posted on 06/02/2024 2:18:52 PM PDT by GailA (Land Grabs, Poisoned Food, KILL the COWS, Bidenomics=BIDEN DEPRESSION. STAGNATION)
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To: SeekAndFind
This is about white-collar crime where police are not normally involved.

Except in this case, all the facts were established during the civil trials before this show trial, that this was all on Cohen, who lied about it, was convicted, disbarred, and kept on lying.

Who cares about facts already established in court when the Democrats will burn down every legal protection to get Trump?

28 posted on 06/02/2024 3:03:19 PM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇸 Trump 2024 🇺🇸)
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To: wny

I don’t suggest that the actual crime is gone missing,just that Fat Albert & his little group are the likely suspects. Someone interested in honest justice needs to take a hard look at how he conducted this business.


29 posted on 06/03/2024 4:26:01 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: conservativesister

A chain should work.


30 posted on 06/03/2024 4:27:09 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: SeekAndFind

In order to resuscitate the expired statute of limitations on a misdemeanor, Bragg had to point to another crime it was covering up. The law appears to have been written so that it can be applied to a crime proven in another jurisdiction. However, Bragg claimed the DA didn’t have to prove, or even specify, the covered up crime - meaning that in this case the misdemeanor was elevated to a elony due to a mere accusation by innuendo.

The lack of police involvement doesn’t bother me much. The lack of specificity in the charges bothers me a lot.


31 posted on 06/03/2024 4:33:50 AM PDT by MortMan (Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Againt Alliteration Abuse)
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