Posted on 08/23/2018 6:39:40 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
President Trump said “flipping” should be illegal on Thursday two days after Michael Cohen implicated him in a guilty plea.
Mr. Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt that flipping “almost ought to be illegal.” People “make up stories” about others just to cut down on their on prison sentences, he argued.
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The Feds and local police Flip drug defendants all the time to get the dealers up the supply chain, they even flip people that were involved in murder or terrorist plots.
And at the end of the day, the flippers go free.
It is high time that we make flipping defenders against the law.
So should violating attorney client privilege
Where’s the ABA and State Bars on that?
LOL!
“Where’s the ABA and State Bars on that?”
Both the ABA and State Bar can sanction an attorney for breaking privilege.
Flipping is nothing but LEGAL EXTORTION!
“You tell us what we want you to hear or you will spend the rest of your life in prison.” That is absolute EXTORTION!
Yeah, but where’s their concern over the raid in Cohen plus attempts to get Trump via his attorney?
Flipping = Torturing until a confession
‘Flipping’ just allows more attorney fees to be paid, all over the place. Work program for lawyers.
It is high time that we make flipping defenders against the law.
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It should be. Prosecutors should have to earn their money. We shouldn’t be providing defendants with motivation to lie. If they’re not honorable enough to tell the truth without having to stike a deal, I don’t want their testimony.
Trump must be sweating to make this defensive statement
So should violating attorney client privilege
Where’s the ABA and State Bars on that?
Trump should be able to sue Cohen for everything he has. Should be able to keep Cohen in the poor house the rest of his life.
It’s worse than doctors sharing patient’s information.
That and prosecutors will charge you with a ridiculous number of offenses, sometimes hundreds, that if the sentences run consecutively, can put you away forever for relatively minor offenses but if you plead guilty to these one or two, we will cut your time and you serve concurrently or sometimes they say they will have to investigate your wife or mother because you called them during the crime period but if you plead...
I do not put a lot of stock in plea deal and something like 90 percent of all cases are pled out.
Hey, just don’t cross the Deep State and you have nothing to worry about! /s
‘Flipping’ just allows more attorney fees to be paid, all over the place. Work program for lawyers.
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We badly need for the “judical bubble” to burst.
You see these petty theives have court appointed attorneys 50+ times. Why do we continue to pay the bills for these criminals? Not only are we paying for the court appointed attorneys, we’re also paying for the court houses, jails, judges, cost to capture these criminals again and again, .... we’re being fleeced by the “work program for lawyers.”
You do realize that your headline and the quotation in the text don’t say the same thing. Flipping “ought to be illegal” and flipping “almost ought to be illegal” are not equivalent. It’s like leaving a “not” out of a statement to change its meaning 180 degrees. This might not be a 180 degree shift but “almost” is a very significant word which suggests that making it illegal wasn’t what was being said.
A person was something like 10 times more likely to walk free after being charged by a Nazi prosecutor than they are if charged by an American one, and coerced plea deals are the primary reason why.
In game theory the process is called "the prisoner's dilemma". The scenario is that a prosecutor is interested in two people for a crime so it isolates them both and makes the same offer: "I can convict you of a lesser crime but I want to convict someone of the bigger crime. So if you turn on the other guy and implicate him, I'll set you free and go prosecute him. The goal is to get at least one and maybe both to flip so you can prosecute. The game theory comes in when mathematicians asked "what's the best choice for each to make? Take the deal or stay silent?"
This is how Mueller rolls. He gets a guy, squeezes him for nothing and says "lie about someone else and I'll let you ... well I can't let you go because that will look bad for me. So I'll let you serve a smaller jail sentence." And yeah, that ought to be considered extortion and evidence obtained via plea deals should be considered highly suspect.
Plea deals worked against the mafia since velachi
(I need another cup of coffee!) :-)
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