It was brought up the other night that the Supreme Court has already ruled on a similar case and said NO, you can't reach a guilty verdict that way. Sorry I can't cite the case, but they had the decision up on the screen....
They don't really care, they know it will be appealed and overturned, they are not after an actual conviction they are trying to cheat a win in the election.
As to what Federal offense Trump was to have committed? Imagine, if you will, each juror having a different Fed crime in mind. In each instance, 11 of the 12 would say no, wrong, yet they would convict Trump on an elevated felony for committing a different Federal felony which they can't agree upon, and the 11/12 majority didn't think it happened (per the Judge's instructions). In the indictment, no other (Federal) felony was specified. The defense asked the judge to indicate what that felony was, and he refused. The defense wanted to call the former chair of the FEC to ask, in his opinion, since the FEC declined to pursue the matter, what, if any, crime Trump committed. The judge did not allow the defense to call this witness for this purpose. At final oral arguments, where the prosecution gets to go last, the prosecution finally accused Trump of a specific Federal crime, with no opportunity for the defense to rebut (the final thing the jury hears). Talk about denial of Due Process. But, this misdemeanor is so serious that it really doesn't matter that the statute of limitations has run out.
It was announced in the Prosecution closing argument.. and in NY the Prosecution gets to be the closer after the Defense argues their points...so all along the Defense never got told what the Felony was but got to hear it at the end of the trial...and get this...if it was a felony that breaks Federal law which is what the Prosecution claimed...it should have been brought in a Federal Court not a State Court....and the DOJ should have charged him
It was brought up the other night that the Supreme Court has already ruled on a similar case and said NO, you can't reach a guilty verdict that way. Sorry I can't cite the case, but they had the decision up on the screen....
As to what Federal offense Trump was to have committed? Imagine, if you will, each juror having a different Fed crime in mind. In each instance, 11 of the 12 would say no, wrong, yet they would convict Trump on an elevated felony for committing a different Federal felony which they can't agree upon, and the 11/12 majority didn't think it happened (per the Judge's instructions). In the indictment, no other (Federal) felony was specified. The defense asked the judge to indicate what that felony was, and he refused. The defense wanted to call the former chair of the FEC to ask, in his opinion, since the FEC declined to pursue the matter, what, if any, crime Trump committed. The judge did not allow the defense to call this witness for this purpose. At final oral arguments, where the prosecution gets to go last, the prosecution finally accused Trump of a specific Federal crime, with no opportunity for the defense to rebut (the final thing the jury hears). Talk about denial of Due Process. But, this misdemeanor is so serious that it really doesn't matter that the statute of limitations has run out.