Judge delays start of trial of ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort until July 31 [trunc]

CNBC ^ | 23 JUL 18 | Dan Mangan

[Lurking Libertarian]

Sometimes a little time for contempt beats a long stretch of hard time.

The way courts interpret "use immunity," it is virtually indistinguishable from transactional immunity. The leading case is Oliver North's. The Iran-Contra Special Prosecutor, hearing that North was going to be given use immunity to testify before Conress, took all of the evidence he had already accumulated against North and sealed it in a locked safe. When North went to trial, the prosecutor used only evidence that had been in that safe. The Court of Appeals nonetheless reversed North's conviction, because the prosecution couldn't prove that none of its witnesses had heard (first or second-hand) North's immunized testimony, which might have affected their "demeanor" when testifying.

[PAR35]

Yes, but that was before Bush set up his secret courts to hear secret evidence.

I’m old enough to remember back in the last century where they had now outmoded ideas like “confronting your accuser” and “public trials”.

[Karliner]

This is a terrible travesty of a banana court. Whatever Manafort may have done PRIOR to this it's over. This is disturbing and Mueller( cap'n Obvious here) deserves to get his ass sued right back to the dark ages if Paul Manafort lives because there will be bitterness, depression and possibly he might even die of the solitary and whatever stress it's putting on him

And while I'm on a rant, TOMMY TOMMY TOMMY, TOMMY ROBINSON!!

[SkyPilot]

So, it appears at this point that Tucker was wrong, and Podesta has not been given immunity.

Mueller may have backed off giving Pedophile Tony Podesta immunity once:

1. It leaked out to Fox News

2. The judge ordered that the names of those given immunity be released to the public and not under seal