There was so much wrong with Merchins Kangaroo court, I wouldnt be surprised the immunity thing plays a part too. I had just read from other lawyer freepers here that the jury instructions about not having to find him guilty by unanimity of each charge, but just any combination of charges, was egregious and unconstitutional. It may also have to do with tying the state charges to a federal crime charge. The statute of limits had run out but the charges had to due with things that predated his 2016 election so I dont think immunity applied here, as it did in the DC/J6 charges.
Actually the charges were based on how an expense was posted in 2017.
No one pretends that the alleged sex was a crime or the payment for nondisclosure.
Their whole crime is that Trump misclassified the expense as a legal expense. His accountant classified it that way because it was paid to a lawyer as part of a bill for many legal services and testified in detail that he had not consulted with Donald Trump about the bill but had handled it like any other bill from Cohen. Cohen was still doing ongoing work for Trump at that time and there were monthly bills.
That was in 2017.
Trump and the accountant state that Trump had no idea about the way the account entries were logged and it is hard to see what other classification could have been selected.
DOJ says it was classified that way to bury it to avoid negative publicity affecting the election. Of course the election was over. The release of records by the FEC doesn’t occur until way after the election so there was no way it could have affected the election.