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Trump Legal Troubles

Danny Bateman

By Danny Bateman,
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Very interesting read.  Potential to upset the prosecution's case in the J6 trial of Trump.  

I did not know that the obstruction charge was based on a portion of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.  

Some J6 defendants are trying to wiggle their way out of obstruction by claiming it only applies to

investigation of financial crimes instead of the broad interpretation of obstruction of ANY US gov official proceeding. 

 

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/17/supreme-court-case-trump-prosecution-00135852

 

 

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Smith’s indictment contains four counts in total. Two of those are for obstruction of an official proceeding and for conspiracy to do so. Those crimes are part of a relatively recent criminal statute governing financial disclosures known as the Sarbanes-Oxley (or “SOX”) Act, which was enacted following the Enron corporate accounting scandal, and which makes it a crime to obstruct an official proceeding of the U.S. government. The Justice Department has so far used it to charge over 300 people involved in the Jan. 6 insurrection; more than 150 have been convicted of the offense following jury trials or pleaded guilty to it.

Many of these defendants, including Fischer, have argued that the “obstruction of an official proceeding” part of the SOX Act was only meant to apply narrowly to financial crimes similar to the ones that produced the law in the first place — and not as broadly as the Justice Department has used it in the Jan. 6 cases.

 

 
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I guess the judge today had to school Habba on how to conduct herself in court today. 

Trump hires only the best.

 

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/judge-scorches-alina-habba-for-not-knowing-how-to-introduce-evidence-at-trial/ar-AA1n8LxC?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=c3954ce20f27413e9e99775cf13da101&ei=31

 

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Alina Habba's disastrous day in court continues to get worse.

As Habba, Donald Trump's attorney, began her cross examination of E. Jean Carroll during the second day of the defamation trial, one thing quickly became clear: Habba does not even understand the most basic aspects of being a lawyer.

Notably, Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan ripped into Habba repeatedly for attempting break the rules and asking E. Jean Carroll questions about things that had not been entered into evidence. At times, it not only appeared that Habba had never tried a case in her entire life, but also seemed like she forgot to attend class entirely while in law school.

The judge quickly realized Habba's lack of knowledge in the courtroom early on during the cross examination during the following exchange. The transcripts below have been brilliantly reported from inside the courtroom by Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press:

 

 

 

 

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