‘Intentional Misfeasance’
Makes Show Trial Conviction Ripe For Reversal, Legal Experts Say
'If I were the court of appeals, the moment this case came in, I would overturn the conviction,' von Spakovsky said.
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31 May 2024 ~~ By M.D. Kettle
Leftist District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s
show trial delivered the Democrat Party’s dream: A felony conviction against their most hated political enemy.
The prosecution and the trial also were also littered with legal landmines and “reversible error” that should make former President Donald Trump’s looming appeal a slam dunk, legal experts say.
Historical and stunning but not surprising to many who have closely followed left-wing lawfare in recent years, the 12 angry Manhattan jurors after two days of deliberations
found Trump guilty on all 34 trumped-up felony counts against him.
Judge Juan Merchan has scheduled sentencing for July 11, just four days before the Republican National Convention is slated to begin in Milwaukee, where the GOP is poised to again nominate Trump as its presidential candidate. He will face President Joe Biden in the rematch of 2020’s mess of an election. Trump also is facing the
possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison, depending on the vindictiveness of a New York judicial system that has already proved to be quite vindictive.
But the appeals process is certain to stall any sentencing, probably until after the election. And there is nothing currently stopping Trump from continuing his third presidential run, even with the kangaroo court felony conviction cheered on by his incumbent opponent.
One of the Craziest Things
Constitutional law expert Hans von Spakovsky says the conviction isn’t likely to stick, for an array of reasons. Chief among them: Merchan’s convoluted jury instructions, in which the
Biden campaign-donor judge framed the jury’s deliberations in a way that,
according to legal expert Jonathan Turley, “seemed less like a jury deliberation than a canned hunt.” Merchan told the jurors they didn’t have to agree on the three possible “unlawful means” prosecutors vaguely alleged Trump had employed to “influence” the 2016 election.
“The jurors were told that they could split on what occurred, with four jurors accepting each of the three possible crimes in a 4-4-4 split. The court would still consider that a unanimous verdict so long as they agree that it was in furtherance of some crime,” Turley
wrote in the Hill before the verdict was handed down.
Threw the Constitution "Out The Window
Defense attorney Randy Zelin told CNN that Merchan’s jury instructions contained a “key flaw.”
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Von Spakovsky said the courts should act as expeditiously as the Supreme Court did in the
Colorado ballot access case in which it unanimously overturned the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling kicking Trump off the state presidential primary ballot.
As for Merchan, von Spakovsky said the judge is either one of the most incompetent judges he has ever seen or his curious instructions to the jury was “a sign of intentional misfeasance.”
“In fact, I think it’s the latter because throughout this entire case he has acted as if he is an alternate member of the prosecution team,” the legal expert said.
Commentary:
There are plenty of aspects to this case begging for appeal. It may take a run through a couple levels of appeal to get to a court that doesn’t want Trump strapped in the electric chair.
After seeing the real-time corruption of New York City judges, prosecutors, and jurists can anyone say they would not vote for secession from this corrupt race of people?
The South did the right thing in 1860; that is for sure.
Democrat Neo-Marxists appoint only judges that legislate from the bench, or are more than willing to violate and work outside the Constitution and law to advance their Marxist ideology.
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