(06-03-2024, 01:00 AM)Infolurker Wrote:(06-02-2024, 06:25 PM)xuenchen Wrote: The Judge instructed The Jury to decide on crimes Trump committed that caused the charges to be valid and find Trump guilty. The underlying "crime(s)" they used is a Federal Crime. The question will be about how a local Jury can find somebody guilty of a Federal crime that a Defendant was never Federally charged with let alone convicted of.
The 34 "guilty" charges are like finding somebody guilty of killing the same person 34 different times!!
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That was exactly my question on this BS stretch of so called "get him for something / anything" banana justice.
How can you upgrade misdemeanor chargers to a felony on the justification that it was associated with another crime that Trump was never indicted for, tried for, nor found guilty of?
Banana Republic
It looks to me like the weakest two points in the prosecution are, one, that a LOCAL jurisdiction is trying to enforce FEDERAL law, which is outside their jurisdiction, and two, no Federal law has ever been determined to have been broken in the case, so they are not only prosecuting outside their jurisdiction, they are also prosecuting a criminal act that was never determined to have been criminal, or indeed to ever have happened at all,. Or, more properly, they are trying to use that non-existent criminal act as an adjunct or "aggravating factor" to increase the charges and penalties of local law for a "crime" that never happened from the perspective of the law.
If this is allowed to stand, it is only a matter of time before it is weaponized against the Democrats too, in political prosecutions against them. Thing is, they can't cry about it when it is, because THEY created that monster. THEY set the precedent for "how to git 'er done". THEY are celebrating the end of the Rule of Law and ushering in the era of Kangaroo Courts and Political Persecutions.
I wonder what would happen if some Conservative prosecutor decided to throw this legal theory against Hunter Biden? We've not heard much about him lately, and I think they're hoping that it all just goes away, disappears, by taking it out of the public eye. What if that don't work? What if this new and novel theory of how to construct felony charges gets used against him?
Maybe, for instance, he gets caught in the misdemeanor of "jaywalking" on his way to buy some crack. Maybe it's never proven he even bought any crack, but that charge is used to parlay a misdemeanor into a felony of "trafficking" just to give hims some lock-down time in the Crossbar Hotel.
Maybe we'll live long enough to see that happen. Maybe we will see it used against Old Joe himself. Wouldn't that be some poetic justice? I mean, they DID find a bag of cocaine in HIS house, now didn't they? I've heard it said that "possession is 9/10ths of the law"... and then there is the matter of the classified documents found stashed at his house... not to mention the treasonous act of accepting payments fro enemy powers to "fix"things in their favor...
Yup, I can see a lot of new uses for this novel new theory on how to "get" people that piss you off...
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