Did Judge Merchan Make a Critical Error That Can Save Trump?

PJ Media ^ | 05/01/2024 | Matt Margolis

[SeekAndFind]

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case against Donald Trump had already hit a few snags, but now, Judge Merchan may have made a critical error that could reverse the Trump verdict upon appeal by allowing prosecutors to make certain arguments, according to GWU University law professor Jonathan Turley.

During an appearance on “Fox & Friends,” Turley suggested that New York Judge Juan Merchan made a mistake by allowing Bragg's prosecutorial team, which is being led by former Biden administration official Michael Colangelo, to say unequivocally that Trump was involved in federal election law violations.

“I got to tell you, I think this judge may have already committed reversible error,” Turley told Fox News. “He could try to amend it, he could try to change it in his instructions, but that jury has now been told repeatedly that there are federal election crimes here, strongly suggesting that the payment to Stormy Daniels did violate federal election laws. That’s just not true.”

The Daily Caller has more.

The New York Court of Appeals ruled in a 4-3 decision Thursday that the “erroneously admitted” testimony about unrelated incidents and other actions by the judge presiding over the rape trial of disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein were “egregious errors” that required a new trial.

Turley also previewed testimony from former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, who is expected to be a star witness for the prosecution, earlier in his appearance.

“Michael Cohen is literally going to tell that jury, ‘Please send my client to jail for following my legal advice,’” Turley continued. “All of the stuff that they are talking about, he set up, he structured this and told his client that ‘we could do this.’ It’s a bizarre moment.”

[TexasFreeper2009]

oh your right! LOL

worst case ever

[SMARTY]

Trump doesn’t need ‘saved’ by a criminal and liar

[DaiHuy]

““I personally think it is an error to analyze this case on legal merits.””

I agree. This is more in the realm of the vaunted case or Alice vs The Red Queen.

[wardaddy]

1868 Mississippi was under federal occupation

Poor example

[lepton]

Prosecuting a black man for raping a white woman in rural Mississippi in 1868 had little to do with law or facts.

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That’s not a good example. There at least was a law against rape.

[lepton]

Merchan is *officially* out of his league as well, as the federal campaign finance laws they keep hinting at are limited in who can prosecute them (FEC and DoJ, because even Congress recognized that they aren’t capable of being lawfully prosecuted without dancing on the line of the first Amendment at best), and Merchan isn’t it.

[Gay State Conservative]

Yes,it’s easy to imagine the convictions being overturned by the Federal appeals courts.But DJT *will* be convicted and that’s all that matters to Rat Party Headquarters.