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Opinion: Alvin Bragg’s entire case against Trump hinges on a disbarred serial perjurer
The Hill ^ | May 4, 2024 | JONATHAN TURLEY

Posted on 05/04/2024 12:26:19 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

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1 posted on 05/04/2024 12:26:19 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

...and the fact the jury will not be told about his habit of being a liar while under oath.


2 posted on 05/04/2024 12:28:11 PM PDT by mware
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I believe the judge has said his past incidents of lying will not be permitted to be mentioned when the jury is present.


3 posted on 05/04/2024 12:29:44 PM PDT by mware
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

They want to be able to call POTUS45 a “convicted felon”.

Even a verdict that’s ultimately overturned would suffice.


4 posted on 05/04/2024 12:30:49 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

https://realrawnews.com/2024/05/jag-sentences-deep-state-judge-to-hang/


5 posted on 05/04/2024 12:31:23 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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6 posted on 05/04/2024 12:32:18 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Bratch
Trump is on trial for having won the 2016 election. Most likely all of the jurors voted for Hillary in 2016, so they will vote to convict.

The question is whether the Democrats are bold enough to try to jail Trump after the verdict or will be content with being able to say he is a convicted felon. That might cost Trump a few million votes.

7 posted on 05/04/2024 12:34:07 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

All of the lawsuits against Trump is the Deep State trying to get him off the ballots for 2024 or not being able to campaign and hopefully Nikki Haley will step back in at the last minute and c=save the day ... by losing to Biden


8 posted on 05/04/2024 12:34:44 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Diogenesis

Who actually believes that nonsense? I see stuff like that at BitChute often... posted either by people who are clueless about how things really work, or FOR people who are clueless about how things really work.


9 posted on 05/04/2024 12:40:07 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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Alvin Bragg’s entire case against Trump hinges on a disbarred serial perjurer

This is almost as bad as a serial liar President. /s

10 posted on 05/04/2024 12:43:47 PM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Where the case hinges
sends Bragg off to binges

His new courtroom plight
has caused him a fright

His driver repeats
“Off to All You Can eat?”
🥓🧈🥞🧈🍗🥩
🍚🍛🥣🍰🧁🥧🍨🍩


11 posted on 05/04/2024 12:44:56 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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I hope that Professor Turley is "worldly" enough to understand that DJT *will* be convicted...on all counts...despite what the law,or basic IQ,might say.

But hopefully the Federal appeals courts will apply law and not prejudice.

12 posted on 05/04/2024 12:47:59 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: mware

I haven’t been following the scam trial but..I wouldn’t doubt it.


13 posted on 05/04/2024 12:50:02 PM PDT by cableguymn
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But Bragg is betting on a New York jury looking no further than the identity of the defendant to convict.

Sums up the entire case.

14 posted on 05/04/2024 12:53:37 PM PDT by Robwin ( )
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Where do you get that from? It’s reversible error for the court not to allow a witness to be impeached by being cross examined regarding a felony conviction of moral turpitude. The nature of the offense and its distance in the past can attenuate that, but relatively recent conviction of perjury, of all things, relating broadly to this defendant is per se admissible. Marchand will not exclude that evidence. He can’t because there can be no doubt he’ll be reversed if he does

Secondly is the issue of bias of the witness. It isn’t necessarily as nefarious as it may sound. If, for example, your best friend happens to be standing on the sidewalk and witnesses you in a car accident, obviously as your friend he has a bias in your favor. Nevertheless, as the second to the last para of the article references, the law expects the witness to set aside his bias and tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. In Bragg’s office they had to have a stroke when they saw Cohen’s videos in which he disclosed his extremely bitter bias against Trump. Those are going to be admissible, too. Between his conviction, his videos, and his then-lawyers’ letter to, I think the FEC professing Trump’s lack of wrongdoing , he’s leaving that courtroom in a bucket by the time the lawyers are done with him


15 posted on 05/04/2024 12:54:43 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: mware

Do you have a cite on that?


16 posted on 05/04/2024 12:57:10 PM PDT by Mercat
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

It gets even worse.

His case is based on side stepping the EXCLUSIVE authority of the Federal Election Commission’s authority to prosecute (which they choose not to) federal election crime in order to turn a misdemeanor into a felony. That was done to sidestep the state statutory statute of limitations.


17 posted on 05/04/2024 1:00:37 PM PDT by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: LegendHasIt

In the trial of Jesus, they paid money to people to come and swear under oath. Maybe they need to offer more money to find better and newer liars.


18 posted on 05/04/2024 1:11:48 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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When Cohen takes the stand and raises his right hand and swears to tell the truth, an honest judge would immediately charge him with perjury.


19 posted on 05/04/2024 1:17:35 PM PDT by odawg
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Heading out to Vigil Mass. I did find article that Trumps lawyers did not think Cohen should testify due to his record of perjury. Judge said his prior perjury shouldn’t preclude him from testifying. I’ll continue to search when I get home from Church.


20 posted on 05/04/2024 1:20:57 PM PDT by mware
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