WTF???
His Honor seems to be a marsupial.
Posted on 05/23/2023 10:47:06 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A recent $5 million defamation verdict hasn’t kept Donald Trump quiet. Will a stern warning from the judge in his Manhattan criminal case?
That’s the question looming over a hybrid hearing Tuesday where the former president is set be instructed on new rules barring him from using evidence in the hush-money case to attack witnesses who could testify against him.
Trump won’t have to show up to court for the afternoon hearing at a Manhattan courthouse, avoiding the mammoth security and logistical challenges that accompanied his arraignment last month.
Instead, the Republican will be connected by video conference, with his face beamed onto courtroom TV monitors. His lawyers and prosecutors must still appear in person. […]
The judge in Trump’s criminal case, Juan Manuel Merchan, issued a protective order May 8 listing restrictions on Trump’s pretrial behavior. He agreed to take the extra step of personally instructing him on the rules in light of Trump’s public persona and status as a current presidential candidate.
Trump is allowed to speak publicly about the criminal case, according to Merchan’s order, but he risks being held in contempt if he uses evidence turned over by prosecutors in the pretrial discovery process to target witnesses or others involved in the case. …
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The judges name isn’t Roland Freisler by any chance?
Why not just sentence him and screw the trial?
“Why not just sentence him and screw the trial?”
Because the intent is to tie Trump up as much as possible during campaign season.
A POS AG in Georgia is about to do similar.
I’m afraid this is just the beginning my friend.
So he cannot use evidence that the prosecutors provided him. Interesting legal theory.
They want a mute button.
You can’t attack the people attacking you, and your family. You have to sit there like a bump on a log, not say a word, and not fight back. That’s what the anti-Trumpers on FR want as their next President. They want someone “nice.”
Looks like Juan Manuel Merchan takes his cues from Freisler, to be sure. Completely ignoring the Fourth, Fifth and (with this move) Sixth Amendments of the Constitution.
Guess they don’t like the Bill of Rights either. Judge Merchan’s rules violate the Sixth Amendment.
They criminals love throwing the word “criminal” around.
Deport Merchan
Giving this phony case any legitimacy shows his own arrogance and unbelievable political bias
Send him back to South America where that’s SOP
Deport based on… what?
Because you don’t like the ruling?
What SPECIFICALLY don’t you like?
That it was a politically motivated frame up, duh.
No, his lawyers will be allowed to use the evidence provided, but Trump is barred from discussing it publicly. Frankly it’s better for him if he keeps quiet.
Discovery is discovery. Evidence can be used as the recipient (the accused, not his lawyers) chooses. Lawyers possess no special rights above the person they represent.
This will get overturned.
Also he is has the right as a candidate to use that evidence to advance his case with the American people that he is the victim of a wrongful political persecution.
It was totally legitimate that he let the world know the rape accuser has a cat named vagina, and called her black husband an ape and much more.
Also he has the same rights to speak publicly about the case that the accuser and her PR people do. The Columbian judge is operating on emotion, not the law.
At one point he even said Trump could only view the discovery evidence if supervised by his attorney. That violates every principal of basic US Jurisprudence.
WTF???
His Honor seems to be a marsupial.
Originally from Bogotá, Colombia, apparently. Comes here and goes through the tainted college system (first in his family to go to college) in order to tear down the Bill of Rights. What a storied life and career already; pity it’s in the context of infamy.
And Sisak writes this proudly, with no mention whatsoever of the Bill of Rights.
Welcome to the world of people without notoriety or money.
Ehat you said is exactly ehat it’s like to be up against ones “betters”.
Re: 12 - So you can’t speak to the law - got it.
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