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I have a feeling he doesn't have the best lawyers representing him.
"I was surprised that there were not more objections," from the defense team he added. "At one point, the court ... objected, because there was no objection coming from the defense."
Either they are bad lawyers or they were strategically withholding their objections in order to file the mistrial motion. I fully expect this to be brought up again in an appeal, assuming Trump loses the case.
Convicted defendents in New York stay in prison during the appeal process. But of course we wont see that fucking happen because money reasons.
May it be too late for CheeseTurd by then.
Yes, but also in their defense they don't have the best client. It's like they deserve each other.
I've been following this trial very closely. Trump is the problem. He demands that his lawyers challenge everything very aggressively. He is enraged if his counsel accepts even trivial facts that make no difference either way. The bigger question is why they put up with his tantrums.
Money, probably...
He's not gonna pay. He'll say he lost so why pay. He's got almost 500 million on bond for business fraud, 5 million for rape of Ms. Carroll, I think I'm missing another big one, and he's freaking out at donors for not giving enough.
He's got no field offices set up and only really doing campaign rallies, if you don't count the desperate emails begging for donations. The only thing keeping his "campaign" going right now is the cult.
If he paid lawyers, he might get good ones.
"But Merchan says he was also surprised there were not more objections from the defense and that, at one point, he stepped in of his own accord to restrict Daniels’ testimony."
Blanche was actually a pretty respected prosecutor turned defense attorney, its surprising he took the case unless he wanted to get out of law and this was his swansong before transitioning to some sweet talkinghead gig or other well-paid right-wing political operative role
Blanche used to be a respected lawyer. I hope the payday was enough to pay for the reputational damage he's taking.
lol get fucked traitors
Good!
I was gonna say, that's hilarious but nah. I think that's what the judge thinks as well.
Legally speaking that's some bullshit.
Saving us clicks : many thanks :)
"I don't believe we are at the point where a mistrial is warranted," Merchan said.
Objection!
On what grounds?
It's devastating to my case!
"Your Honor! How can my client possibly get a fair trial after the jury has heard what he did? This bell can not be unrung!"
--Trump's Laywers, probably
| Trump’ lawyers actually
I'm not a lawyer, so interested in learning...
Isn't this what the purpose of objecting is? If the defense fails to object while it's happening... Isn't that kinda on them?
Yes. The judge pointed it out to them:
"I was surprised that there were not more objections" from the defense team, the judge added.
"At one point, the court ... objected, because there was no objection coming from the defense," he said
Because this was their plan all along.
Edit: request already rejected, but I’m sure they’ll mention it on appeal.
That's fine.
Convicts in New York start their sentence during the criminal appeal process.
Is the second quote saying that the judge stepped in because the defense was being so shit?
Yes
If you object and stop it you can't ask for a mistrial.
IANAL but if you don't object you still can't ask for a mistrial unless you argue that the defense given by the lawyers was literally incompetent, and I'm far from an expert but i think that's a pretty hard bar to reach. Especially if pre-trial they would put that lawyer on the stand and ask why they didn't object during the testimony but only complained after the testimony, and i can't imagine any valid argument that would be accepted by a court.
Bottom line, I'm not an expert at all, but if they purposely didn't object so that they could ask for a mistrial, I'm pretty sure that won't work at all
Yes. Mistrial is only even something irreversible happens and the trial became unfair. If you didn't call bullshit at the time, you are not allowed to complain about everything later. And because you didn't object, there's also no preserved issue for appeal.
Btw I think the judge would be able to base their opinion in latches. But I might be wrong.
Trump lawyer: I move for a bad court thingy.
Judge: You mean a mistrial?
Trump lawyer: Yeah. That's why you're the judge and I'm the law talking guy.
Judge: The lawyer.
Trump lawyer: Right.
"Your Honor, I move that I be disbarred for introducing this evidence against my own clients. "
Interesting. Harvey Weinstein's conviction in New York was thrown out over something like that. He is likely to be retried there though, and his California conviction still stands.
In Weinstein's case the prosecution brought in testimony from women who weren't part of the charges that were actually being tried, though, which is a pretty big difference from what happened here. Clifford is kind of central to this case.