Thinking ahead, does ANYTHING prevent Merchan from finding out and replacing any juror holding out for acquittal until there is a guilty verdict? Assuming Merchan cares not a bit about being reversed later. Much later?
I ask again, does a bent judge with an agenda, have the ability to kick a holdout hjuror off the jury during deliberations, and replace them with an alternate until there aren’t any holdouts remaining? Serious as a heart attack question here. Especially if the bent judge doesn’t care about being overturned on appeal?
Can indeed the judge replace jurors for holding out for acquittal, with an alternate who the odds say would immediately convict? Seems rigged. Does a judge really have that incredible latitude after jury deliberations begin? No blowback for interfering in that manner to bend the jury to a judge-desired conviction? If this were so and a possibility, wouldn’t we hear it being used more to end holdouts for hung juries everywhere?
Bingo! This last-second reversal of America-hating positions by Biden’s handlers are to give him better talking points at the debates and for the rest of the re-election campaign. None of it is seriously being considered.
I have wondered after seeing speculative postings..
Is that rule codified somewhere, about no State pardon power by POTUS, or is it customary and traditional? Has a POTUS ever tried to issue a pardon for a state conviction and had it litigated?
Matthew 24:6-8
King James Version
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
And is it possible, even if free on bond pending appeal, that this Judge can confine Trump to home, i.e., Trump Tower, or restrict movement out of state to prevent effective campaigning, etc ?
Has it been posted here that this judge does not have the discretion to jail Trump pending appeal? That is instead will be Trump free pending appeal and Biden and the media screaming felon felon felon nonstop 24/7?
for those here more legally astute than I, just how fast COULD Bragg re-file this “case” if the jury becomes deadlocked and ultimately has a mis trial declared? How soon to seat a new jury and etc etc? Assume some of the process would become expedited and go faster but how slowly COULD it go if Trump’s defense demands full use of time allowed at every juncture? Before the Fall election?
Interesting question to all here legally minded. Does the outrageous Merchan gag order against President Trump end when the trial ends, or can Merchan order it to continue on into forever perpetuity? Or at least until all appeals are exhausted?
“However if the judge DOES lay out the law Trump supposedly violated, “Conspiracy to Influence an Election” then the defense still wins on appeal because under New York law that provision only applies to state races and specifically excludes candidates for federal office.”
Thanks for the analysis. I’ve wondered throughout this why this glaring missing underlying crime can wait to be revealed in the jury instructions? Doesn’t it have to be front and center right awaay as a right of the defendant?