This also just happened. He is without any hyperbole the worse client a defence lawyer has ever had:
'Keep confessing': Trump appears to corroborate allegations in impromptu remarks - Raw Story
What are the chances this will get played in court?
In a blurb about the six jurors seated so far, CNN stated that “the first seated juror, who will be the foreperson on Trump’s jury…”
Is that standard in NY? Is it automatically the first juror seated? I was under the impression that the jury chose their own foreperson at the start of deliberations, but I don’t know if I got that idea from real life or Hollywood.
Ayup:
Unless otherwise determined by the court, the juror whose name was first drawn shall be designated as the foreperson.
Hmm. I was the foreperson (presiding juror) in both of the juries where I served. I was chosen as our first act. I did it because no one else wanted to do it.
Based on my very brief experience, they seem to be going at a fast clip. It took us that long on my trials which were both pretty simple battery.
“I was paying a lawyer and marked it down as a legal expense. Some accountant, I didn’t know, marked it down as a legal expense. That’s exactly what it was, and you get indicted over that?”
He still doesn’t get that the case isn’t so much about paying her, it’s about the fact that the money used to pay her was “marked down as a legal expense”. If it was marked down as part of his income, he wouldn’t be here today.
In fact, as long as I’m understanding that correctly, he’s stuck in the middle of all this because he didn’t want to owe taxes on the 130k, taxes that he likely wouldn’t have paid anyway.
Looks like court has wrapped for the day. Total of seven jurors have been seated. Last one is apparently a litigator in Manhattan.
Trump’s motorcade is rolling.
I’m surprised that lawyers are being seated on the jury. That’s not allowed here in Canada. But, different jurisdictions, different rules, I guess.
I don’t know if it’s not allowed here in the State of Washington, or my native California, but it seems that being an attorney is a valid excuse to be… well, excused… from a jury.
I don’t think that there’s any category of person who’s blanket excluded from all juries, by the rules, in the US. Though lawyers often don’t want other lawyers on a jury, and will use their exclusions on them.
Lawyers do sit in Washington. They are often excused by the parties, but not always.
Lawyers can be on juries in Santa Barbara County. From the few juries I have seen seated, they all get kicked off. Also cops. This is for criminal juries. I haven’t been called for a civil jury.
Side question-would a deaf person be allowed to have their interpreter go in the jury room, etc with them? I’m assuming so.
Courts employ their own certified interpreters and would provide one for a deaf person sitting on a jury.
That’s news to his former consigliere.
Why can’t Cohen just stop talking already.
Do you want him to stop talking? I rather like him torpedoing trump every chance he gets.
Why does anyone care what Cohen says? He’s a lying weasely piece of shit who is faking a redemption. I don’t believe anything that he says even if it goes against Don.
He’s either going to be wrong about stuff or regardless, it’s coming off anti-Trump. All days/weeks before he is going to testify against Trump and will need to preserve whatever little credibility he has left.
There’s little that Cohen is likely to say that is NOT corroborated by other witnesses and ample documentary evidence.
So says pretty much every legal talking head I’ve heard.
Never mind
What are the rules of evidence, anyway? Can the prosecution attempt to bring in remarks made publicly out of court while during the trial, including jury selection?