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In NY, written retainer agreements are generally required between lawyers & their clients, though there are exceptions that might apply in the case of #Trump & #MichaelCohen. Specifically, lawyers don’t always need to establish a written retainer when they are performing the same type of legal work they’ve done previously.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference
#Blanche is now mocking prosecutors’ inclusion of #Trump’s own words in one of his partially ghostwritten books from years ago, which was entered into evidence as proof of him being a micromanager. “If the government reads to you quotes from a book a decade, more than a decade earlier, you should be suspicious,” Blanche says. “That’s a red flag”
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference
Evidence including notes made by #AllenWeisselberg about how #MichaelCohen would be repaid for the #HushMoney, & an email that the defense just highlighted in its own closing referring back to the agreement.
#Blanche depicts #Trump as too distracted to focus on the matters of the checks & the payments. Cutting against a long-acknowledged #Trump trait: his proclivity for attention to minutiae in times of stress.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference
Confusing: Blanche highlights that “some sort of tax scheme” was involved in the repayment to #MichaelCohen. Prosecution’s theory of the case is that #Trump falsified records to cover up a #conspiracy to #influence the 2016 #election — & one way to prove the conspiracy is that #tax #crimes were involved. It’s unclear why Blanche would draw the jury’s attention to an important aspect of the prosecution’s case.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference
In his follow-up to this argument about a #tax scheme, #Blanche asks why #MichaelCohen didn’t remember the amount he was meant to be owed each month & why the checks didn’t always come from #Trump. Again, even as he seeks to cast doubt on the prosecution’s argument, he reminds jurors of what the other side wants them to believe.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference
#Blanche argues there was no #intent by #Trump to #defraud — a #legal concept at the heart of the case. Every time Blanche says the phrase “intent to defraud,” the judge looks at him — but so far, Justice #Merchan has not interrupted him.
Blanche argues the prosecution must show that Trump “caused” the false records. He’s correct about the wording in NY’s #FalseRecords #Law, but “caused” is not a super high bar.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference
The prosecution alleges that #Trump was present when his employees hatched a plan to falsify the records, & did not stop them from doing so. The prosecution could even argue that Trump, as the boss, effectively approved the plan & thus caused it.
#Blanche shows the #jury the #tax documents sent to #MichaelCohen & the #IRS as #evidence that the payments to Cohen were all above board.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference
FYI: declaring a payment to the #IRS doesn’t automatically make it #legal (it’s called #TaxFraud & it’s a #crime we know #Trump commits regularly).
Blanche is repeatedly calling #MichaelCohen both a liar & Trump’s personal attorney.
The jury is going to have to grapple reconcile something Blanche isn’t, namely that Trump hired Cohen & worked w/him for over a decade.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference
#Blanche tries persuading the #jurors that in order to #convict, they must find that #Trump sought to promote his own candidacy for president “by unlawful means.” Blanche is trying to cast doubt on some of the “unlawful means” the prosecutors will argue later.
Blanche says that it didn’t matter if there was “a conspriacy to win an election … Every campaign in this country is a conspiracy.”
[umm, okay…]
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference
Tues 28 May 2024 🧵 #ClosingArguments to Begin in #TrumpTrial
#Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection w/a #HushMoney payment made to a porn star to influence the 2016 election. The case could be in the jury’s hands as early as Wed.
#law #ElectionInterference
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/28/nyregion/trump-trial-closing-arguments?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
#FaniWillis #wins #primary
Willis now proceeds to November’s general #election, where she will face Courtney Kramer, a Republican lawyer who interned in the #Trump White House.
#FultonCounty DA Fani Willis, who has emerged as a national figure after bringing #criminal charges against Trump, won her Democratic primary on Tues in her first ballot appearance since the inception of the high-profile #ElectionInterference case.
#Atlanta #GApol #USpol #law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/21/fani-willis-georgia-democratic-primary/
After brashly declaring he wanted to #testify in his #criminal trial, it appears increasingly unlikely that #Trump will do so, as the #jury seems poised to hear #ClosingArguments next week.
Defendants rarely testify, because their #lawyers advise them that the risks of doing so, particularly when it comes to being questioned by prosecutors #UnderOath, are simply too great.
#TrumpTrial #law #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/18/trump-trial-testifying/
Is there some reason why Alito (and Thomas) is not recusing himself from any cases having to do with #Trump, the #2020Insurrection, or #electioninterference?
And #JusticeRoberts has the gall to whine about how #SCOTUS is so disrespected.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html
When you look at the facts of the Trump indictment — not imagined hypothetical scenarios — there is no way the Constitution grants him immunity from prosecution.
(Samuel Breidbart, Brennan Center for Justice)
Two centuries of U.S. constitutional history make clear that Donald Trump is liable to criminal prosecution.
#Constitution
#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #History #Immunity #Justice #Crime #Elections
#ElectionInterference #Fascism #Fascist #Trumpism #Corruption
