Thanks for sharing someone else's opinion.
That is seriously lazy debate.
I see no reason in that article that will cause the appeal to be successful.
"was handpicked for this case rather than randomly selected."
No, he wasn't. Unless you have proof beyond speculation.
"Merchan’s daughter is also a Democratic organizer who has helped raise millions against Trump and the GOP and for the Democrats."
Irrelevant. Judges don't recuse themselves over who their kids donated too...unless you can show precedent for this?
"The indictment claimed a violation under New York’s election law 17-152 that the falsification of business records were committed to further another crime as an unlawful means to influence the election."
This is false. The indictment says 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. The indictment says nothing about 17.152.
"Merchan also barred the use of a legal expert, former FEC Chair Brad Smith, who was prepared to testify that such payments cannot be viewed as federal election violations and would not affect the election even if they were considered contributions, since they would not even have had to be reported until after the election."
Another lie. He was not barred. The judge restricted his available answers to ones relevant to the case.
"Merchan was equally conflicted in his other orders. For example, he allowed the prosecutors to introduce the plea agreement of Michael Cohen to federal election violations as well as the non-prosecution agreement of David Pecker on such violations. However, it was allowed only for the purposes of credibility and context. He issued an instruction that the jury could not consider the plea or the agreement to establish or impute the guilt of Trump."
So? What's the problem here?
"Merchan allowed the jury to find that the secondary offense was any of the three vaguely defined options."
Another lie. The three crimes were not vaguely defined. They had been defined for months.
"Merchan allowed the jury to find that the secondary offense was any of the three vaguely defined options. Even on the jury form, they did not have to specify which of the crimes were found. Under Merchan’s instruction, the jury could have split 4-4-4 on what occurred in the case. They could have seen a conspiracy to conceal a federal election violation, falsification of business records or taxation violations. We will never know. Worse yet, Trump will never know."
Turley is an idiot. The jury didn't have to agree on the predicate crimes.because he was not charged with those crimes.
"These are just a few of the appellate issues. There are other challenges, including but not limited to due process violations on the lack of specificity in the indictment..."
The indictment was very specific. 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. How could it be simpler?
You should stop listening to paid pundits.