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mystery-ak:
A serial perjurer will try to prove an old misdemeanor against Trump in an embarrassment for the New York legal system
By Social Links for Jonathan Turley
Published April 14, 2024, 1:44 p.m. ET
The famous Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero once said, “The more laws, the less justice.”
This week, New York judges and lawyers appear eager to prove that the same is true for cases against Donald Trump.
After an absurd $450 million decision courtesy of Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will bring his equally controversial criminal prosecution over hush money paid to a former porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
Lawyers have been scouring the civil and criminal codes for any basis to sue or prosecute Trump before the upcoming 2024 election. This week will highlight the damage done to New York’s legal system because of this unhinged crusade. They’ve charged him with everything short of ripping a label off a mattress.
Just a few weeks ago, another judge imposed a roughly half trillion dollar penalty in a case without a single victim who lost a single cent on loans with Trump. (Indeed, bank officials testified they wanted more business with the Trump organization).
Now Bragg is bringing a case that has taken years to develop and millions of dollars in litigation cost for all parties. That is all over a crime from before the 2016 election that is a misdemeanor under state law that had already expired under the statute of limitations.
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https://nypost.com/2024/04/14/opinion/a-serial-perjurer-will-try-to-prove-an-old-misdemeanor-against-trump-in-an-embarrassment-for-the-new-york-legal-system/
DB:
"roughly half trillion dollar penalty"
Billion, not trillion.
mystery-ak:
Michael Cohen is an admitted liar. He’s still going to be the star witness against Trump.
“If a jury doesn’t believe him, that’s it,” one former prosecutor said.
By Erica Orden
04/14/2024 07:00 AM EDT
NEW YORK — By his own admission, he has lied in court. He has lied to the media. And he has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress.
Now, he’s set to be state prosecutors’ key witness against Donald Trump.
Michael Cohen, the former president’s fixer-turned-foe, is expected to tell jurors in the criminal trial starting Monday that Trump directed him to pay $130,000 in hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels so that she wouldn’t go public in the final weeks of the 2016 election with an allegation about a sexual encounter with Trump. Prosecutors have accused the former president of falsifying business records reflecting Trump’s reimbursements to Cohen.
But while the prosecution’s ability to prove its case at trial could hinge on Cohen’s first-hand account of the hush money arrangement, Cohen also may be its most problematic witness due to long-running questions about his ability to tell the truth.
“If a jury doesn’t believe him, that’s it,” said Catherine Christian, a former Manhattan assistant district attorney.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/14/michael-cohen-credibility-trump-trial-00152122
bigheadfred:
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mystery-ak:
Nine questions about the Trump trial, answered
The historic trial will kick off at 10 am Monday in Manhattan
By Emma Colton Fox News
Published April 15, 2024 4:00am EDT | Updated April 15, 2024 4:11am EDT
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nine-questions-about-the-trump-trial-answered
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