« Reply #483 on: May 30, 2024, 06:34:19 pm »
Just saw this from Ed Morrisey over at Hot Air:
But there is a glaring Sixth Amendment problem in this prosecution that make this ripe for federal appeals, too. The indictment never specified the underlying crime that the allegedly falsified records intended to cover up, and Bragg's office never made a case for the crime in question during trial. Only in closing arguments did they offer three different crimes as potential cover-up material, and never presented evidence for any of them. That flies in the face of the constitutional right to know "the nature and cause of the accusation."
And that's probably not a comprehensive accounting for grounds to appeal in federal court, either. Another would be Bragg's crypto-enforcement of federal law that lies outside his jurisdiction, which Judge Juan Merchan allowed in an underhanded manner and then arguably amplified in his instructions to the jury.
Trump's sentencing will take place on July 11, but the appeals will be pushed hard before then, along with requests to set aside the verdict altogether. We can expect this to be a hot story nearly every day between then and now.
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