The Mueller Report
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
Meanwhile, Flynn just fired Keller and the rest of his legal team. https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2019/06/06/michael-flynn-fires-legal-team-1356175?__twitter_impression=true |
Anonymous
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In over 400 pages of his report, at no point does Mueller assert that he could find probable cause to charge President Trump (or any of Trump's family members) with any crime.
That is the legal standard in America that governs all criminal prosecutions. The prosecution must show that probable cause exists to believe the defendant committed the crime. Probable cause is a very low level of evidence, it is just the minimum to bring criminal charges. Even if there is probable cause, the defendant is still presumed innocent until proved guilty by a jury of 12, beyond a reasonable doubt. The Mueller report doesn't come close to making a finding of probable cause as to a single alleged "crime" by President Trump. There is no such standard of "we were unable to prove the President did NOT commit a crime" in American jurisprudence. It is not a relevant statement by the Mueller team. Similar is "we did not exonerate him". That is an imaginary legal standard which simply does not exist. |
Anonymous
Where did you go to law school? |
Anonymous
This is likely a prelude to Flynn's attempting to withdraw his guilty plea on grounds of ineffective assistance of his (former) counsel. |
Anonymous
Ineffective assistance? They got him a plea deal of no jail time. SMH He might be angling for a pardon. Or he's nuts. And we already knew he's nuts. |
Anonymous
Yes, ineffective assistance of counsel. He obviously can't keep the same attorneys and have them file the motion that they themselves were ineffective. So he has to get new attorneys to file that kind of motion, accusing his fired attorneys of providing ineffective assistance in counseling him to plead guilty to a crime which he didn't commit. |
Anonymous
Accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt. |
Anonymous
Wikipedia. I wish Robert Mueller had gone there too: Probable cause In United States criminal law, probable cause is the standard by which police authorities have reason to obtain a warrant for the arrest of a suspected criminal or the issuing of a search warrant. It is also the standard by which grand juries issue criminal indictments. The principle behind the standard is to limit the power of authorities to perform random or abusive searches (unlawful search and seizure), and to promote lawful evidence gathering and procedural form during criminal arrest and prosecution. The standard also applies to personal or property searches.[1] The term comes from the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. |
Anonymous
Implying that Flynn accepted (or was ever even offered) a pardon is your admission of stupidity, since it never happened. |
Anonymous
I'm implying that is his strategy for firing his lawyers. Or else his strategy is to get himself charged with treason. That might be it. |
Anonymous
Why on God's green earth would he need to fire his lawyers in order to receive a pardon? |
Anonymous
Mueller also failed the school of logic. He implied he could prove a negative. The whole report was written with a heavy political tone. He thinks a special counsel's job is to collect information for political proceedings such as an impeachment. |
Anonymous
Methinks you didn't read it. |
Anonymous
More curious omissions from Mueller's report.......
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/447394-key-figure-that-mueller-report-linked-to-russia-was-a-state-department |