Have you even followed the case for 5 minutes? The business records charge isn't a felony unless it was in furtherance of another crime, which has never been specified. |
The other crimes were specified in the jury instructions. |
Yes. 3 possibilities were provided to the jury. The problem is that Merchan did not instruct the jury that it must find unanimously which of those crimes (the predicate act) had been committed. Under similar statutes (RICO for example) the jury must agree unanimously on the predicate offense) or the case will be overturned. This has been determined by countless courts at both the state and federal level. The problem here is that no court in NY has ruled on this specific statute. But no matter how you view this it was terribly sloppy of the court and the prosecution to let this waive in the wind. |
His team did a VERY bad job of defending anything. |
Sloppy denotes by accident. No, this was done on purpose. |
Apparently, you have not followed the case for Five minutes or you would not voluntarily be shouting your ignorance. |
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt6-4-4-3/ALDE_00013134/ |
"In the RICO context, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit explained: [T]he jury [in a RICO case] must be unanimous not only that at least two [predicate] acts were proved, but must be unanimous as to each of two predicate acts. United States v. Gotti, 451 F.3d 133, 137 (2d Cir. 2006) (emphasis added); see also Haynes v. United States, 936 F.3d 683 (7th Cir. 2019) (same) (quoting Gotti, supra); United States v. Carr, 424 F.3d 213, 224 (2d Cir. 2005) (“[T]he jury must find that the prosecution proved each one of those two … specifically alleged predicate acts beyond a reasonable doubt.”)."" Read the rest here - https://www.justsecurity.org/96654/trump-unanimous-verdict/ It is a reasonably objective analysis. |
That doesn’t contradict anything. The verdict itself was unanimous. Please provide some actual citations to case law to support your argument. |