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Might be time to think about an ethics complaint, representing Cohen without payment to create all the anti-Trump spots that Davis did yesterday sure seems to show a conflict of interest.

One would think that Cohen (or maybe a friend of the court) should file a motion that Lanny Davis is a conflicted attorney because he can't represent both Hillary Clinton's interest and Michael Cohen's interest because they oppose each other. Davis should have been a vociferous defender of Cohen's rights, but to do that would go against the Clinton's interests.

Therefore, anything that Davis did on Cohen's behalf must be tossed out, and Cohen should be given council that has HIS interests first, like challenging the evidence gained from the illegal search of his property, or challenging the privileged communications between him and Trump.

-PJ

8 posted on 08/22/2018 11:03:15 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Political Junkie Too
One would think that Cohen (or maybe a friend of the court) should file a motion that Lanny Davis is a conflicted attorney because he can't represent both Hillary Clinton's interest and Michael Cohen's interest because they oppose each other. Davis should have been a vociferous defender of Cohen's rights, but to do that would go against the Clinton's interests.

Cohen had other lawyers, and fired them to hire Davis. I'm sure Davis's retainer letter contained a waiver of conflicts of interest.

Cohen should be given council that has HIS interests first, like challenging the evidence gained from the illegal search of his property, or challenging the privileged communications between him and Trump.

Cohen's prior lawyers already did that, and the court ruled on all of the privilege issues (finding only about 1% of what was seized from Cohen to be privileged; those documents were not handed over to the prosecution, but the rest was). But the point is that the privilege issues were fully litigated before Davis took over.

18 posted on 08/22/2018 11:24:59 AM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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