The jury having left the room, Trump's attorney Todd Blanche adjusts the mic and says: There's no basis and no way the jury could've reached a verdict based on the testimony of Cohen—he lied, there was perjury committed—there's no reason the court should allow a verdict. (via Tyler McBrien, Lawfare)
I assume he was being petulant in the hopes his client would notice and maybe they’ll make it a little further across the river before the client stings him.
I'm constantly asking myself how this pathetic weaseling is helping him. Like with the multi-million dollar verdict earlier that he negotiated down. Wouldn't the cultists believe he's above this?
Motion to set aside the jury's verdict, you're asking the judge to throw out the decision. It's a point for a future appeal if denied (or granted depending on who's appealing). (I'm assuming, I don't know the context of Blanche's statement)
It’s the foundation of double jeopardy. But yall Americans have a stupidly strict version of it so I’m never certain. But if it’s classified as an acquittal the state can’t appeal.
New York may have a different rule, but generally a judgment of acquittal after a jury guilty verdict *can* be appealed, and if reversed then reinstatement of the guilty verdict is not treated as a second jeopardy.
Honest question doesn't this lawyer risk disbarment? It's not an opinion upon which trump was convicted so it can't be retroactively claimed that it was a single witness testimony
I understand stoners swapping stories about throwing out cases because they don’t like the law, but I would think actual lawyers might not gamble on half-arsed legal theory
