What I see is a jury likely riven with disagreements and essentially too dysfunctional to come to any agreement. I could be wrong, but all bets are off after Cohen’s disastrous testimony blew the prosecution’s case out of the water. For perspective, two weeks ago, I was in the 100% chance of conviction.
Exactly. If Bragg failed to present evidence beyond reasonable doubt on just one of the carbon copy counts, the whole edifice collapses like a house of cards.
Where the prosecution’s case is particularly weak is not offering any direct evidence a crime was committed. The NDAs were not a crime. Nor were the “falsified” business ledgers, as the prosecution failed to established any direct link to any other “crime.” Sans that linkage, no evidence of any crime, end of story.
The counts in the indictment are actually identical, difference only being the dates. And therein lies the quandary. Jury deliberations will be a veritable Donny brook. Would love to be a fly on the wall!
They may be, but at that point, it’s game over anyway. Lawyers are officers of the court and Bragg clearly suborned perjury by putting Cohen on the stand knowing he intended to commit perjury.
The 34 counts are copy-and-paste. Seen one, seen ‘em all. The dumbest jury would be hard pressed to arrive at different verdicts over homogenous charges.