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   From: loran@invalid.net   
      
   Siri Cruise wrote:   
   > Yak wrote:   
   >> it also has potential US constitutional issues (i.e. the reason it   
   >> could wind up with the SCOTUS)   
   >   
   > What constitutional issues?   
   >   
   Glad you asked:   
      
      
   Von Spakovsky said Merchan’s instructions point to reversible error —   
   “an error in trial proceedings that affects a party’s rights so   
   significantly that it is grounds for reversal if the affected party   
   properly objected at trial,” according to the Legal Information Institute.   
      
   “This is such a mistake. … If I were the court of appeals, the moment   
   this case came in, I would overturn the conviction,” the former Federal   
   Election Commission member and Heritage Foundation fellow told me before   
   the verdict this week on the Simon Conway Show. “That is one of the   
   craziest things I have ever heard and it is a complete violation of   
   President Trump’s substantive due process rights.”   
      
   Von Spakovsky said the standard in like cases is that jurors come to a   
   unanimous agreement on each of the charges they are deliberating. He   
   said Merchan added an absurd twist to the proceedings after handicapping   
   Trump’s defense throughout the trial.   
      
   Threw the Constitution ‘Out the Window’   
      
   Defense attorney Randy Zelin told CNN that Merchan’s jury instructions   
   contained a “key flaw.”   
      
   “Whether you are driving in a Ford or a Ferrari, if someone gives you   
   bad directions, you’re going to end up lost. And those jury instructions   
   were just a complete, just take the Constitution, throw it out a window,   
   burn it, shoot it and hang it,” the attorney said on “CNN Special   
   Report.”   
      
   Turley told Fox News that the “trial is a target rich environment for   
   appeal,” although he said the appeal will likely “stretch beyond the   
   election.”   
      
   https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/31/intentional-misfeasance-mak   
   s-show-trial-conviction-ripe-for-reversal-legal-experts-say/   
      
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