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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]David Pecker and Michael Cohen were allowed to testify that the NDA was an illegal campaign expense.  But Bradley Smith is not allowed to testify that they are wrong.
The jury is hearing legal opinion of David Pecker and Michael Cohen with regards to campaign finance law but not an FEC commissioner.[/quote]

Please cite where Pecker and Cohen have testified to a legal opinion and don't come back until you do! Both are testifying to FACTS and FACTS ARE NOT LEGAL OPINIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/quote]

Around pages 1130, 1140 3570.
Prosecutor asks Pecker are you aware ... is an illegal campaign contribution. 
When the whole point is it is not an illegal campaign contribution.  But the jury only hears Pecker and Cohen's answers, with the judge occasionally chiming in that this is not proof of guilt.  The entire guilty pleas should have been disallowed(which is what the judge ruled but then he lets them in anyways.)
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Neither 1130 nor 1140 contain anything even remotely about that.  They don't even have the words "campaign" or "contribution" on those pages.  There was some testimony from Pecker about whether he understood that there was such thing as campaign finance law and that there were limits on how much he or AMI could contribute to a political campaign.  Pecker didn't testify to anything more than that.  3570 is asking Cohen about statements he made to the FEC in the course of their investigation.  The judge specifically warned the jury that: "Neither the fact of the FEC investigation nor the responses thereto constitute evidence of the Defendant's guilt, and you may not consider them in determining whether the Defendant is guilty or not guilty of the charged crimes."  Cohen did not testify to whether they were illegal campaign contributions.[/quote]

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