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A federal judge wrongly stopped a Jan. 6, 2021, defendant from striking a potential juror who admitted he could not view the defendant as presumptively innocent, a U.S. appeals court has found. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta [an Obama appointee] denied a request from lawyers for Thomas Webster, who was later convicted on multiple counts, …
AS THE JURORS FILED into the Manhattan courtroom, day after day, almost none of them would look at Donald Trump. It’s one of those unsettling signs for defendants and their lawyers who worry about a guilty verdict. Those worries have only grown in Trump’s orbit as allies have all but abandoned hope of acquittal. Even …
This woman hits the nail on the head when she describes seeing Donald Trump in-person as “jarring” since that’s the exact way I’d describe my own experience. Because like her, I was seated about 30′ away from him in a room of only 300 other people. It was at the 2016 Kansas caucus in a …
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