Defense filing motion to dismiss, plus 2 other motions

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Source: abc news



May 09, 12:08 PM
Defense filing motion to dismiss, plus 2 other motions

Trump's defense team, after Judge Juan Merchan dismissed the jury for a lunch break, informed the judge they have a renewed motion for a mistrial plus two additional motions.

In in addition to seeking a mistrial, the defense will asking to preclude Karen McDougal's potential testimony, and seek to modify part of the limited gag order placed on Trump.

Merchan said he will break testimony early at 4 p.m. ET and handle the three motions then.

Before excusing the jury for the lunch break, Merchan announced that the trial is currently on or ahead of schedule.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/trump-hush-money-trial/defense-filing-motion-to-dismiss-plus-2-other-motions-110078416?id=110052829

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[LiberalFighter]

1. It is a shame the judge can't slap those attorneys

[Lovie777]

2. Cross examination didn't go well......................

p.s. in a sane environment specially after hearing shithole's many attorneys plead their client's cases in the different venues, and the one for immunity before the US SC, in a sane world would be denied.

His attorneys lack moral judgement, same for the RWer judges/justice.

[lastlib]

3. They seem to have an unlimited supply of poo to fling at the walls........

(I wonder where they get it from.....) This won't stick, either.

[blm]

4. Trump does not want to face McDougal.

They had a real affair.

[BlueKota]

5. Their should be a law against filing the same

motion over and over again. Unless somethings drastically changed since the last time the judge denied their previous motion to declare a mistrial.

[LudwigPastorius]

6. I can only assume, once again, that the motion to dismiss is based on Ms. Daniel's testimony.

Seems like, if Trump's attorneys were any good, they would have raised objections as she was being questioned, rather than waiting after the fact to assert that her testimony constituted improper or inadmissible evidence.

[Frasier Balzov]

10. If Stormy's testimony was too lurid and inflammatory

it was because Trump denies that it happened at all.

The details she gave were supposed to convince the jury that it DID happen, and that Trump was paying for those true facts not to be revealed.

His denial needed to be overcome with her credible tell-all on the stand.

Everybody squirming uncomfortably upon hearing it is Trump's own perjurious fault.

[LiberalFighter]

12. The judge questioned the attorneys why they didn't object during the testimony

[FakeNoose]

7. Judge Merchan won't be swayed by these motions

This is pretty standard stuff, am I right? Judges see these motions all the time, and they're easy to slap down. Since when has a judge ever said, "Oh you're rather have a dismissal? OK here you go."
Never....

[ScratchCat]

9. Here's a good example

This is pretty standard stuff, am I right? Judges see these motions all the time, and they're easy to slap down. Since when has a judge ever said, "Oh you're rather have a dismissal? OK here you go."
Never....

He is asking for a mistrial, not that the charges be outright dismissed.

This just happened in a local case this week. A prosecution witness, on three occasions, mentioned irrelevant testimony pertaining to charges not in front of the jury. The defense objected each time, and after the third time the witness did it, the judge declared a mistrial based upon the motion from the defense. The key is, the defense immediately objected during testimony - and the judge agreed that the witness should not be mentioning what he did, told the witness to not do it again and the witness still did it again. You don't remotely have those elements here.

[FakeNoose]

15. Thx

This explanation is very helpful for us non-lawyers.

[BlueKota]

8. There should be rules against filing the same

motion over and over again. Unless somethings drastically changed since the last time the judge denied their previous motion to declare a mistrial.

[Quanto Magnus]

11. The M$M needs to invest in

editors... So many 'professional' articles with misspellings, missing words, gender swapping (saw another article calling Stormy Daniels a 'he' then switching back to the proper gender pronoun....

Failed proof reading ftl...

[LiberalFighter]

13. This is a bit different.

Most times, especially print media, and TV that is planned, they do a better job.

In this case they are reporting on the spot. I saw one on MSNBC spelling a word with an extra letter. A minute or so the extra letter was removed.

[Marthe48]

14. 2nd request for mistrial is denied

I just heard it on MSNBC

No link

[duckworth969]

16. State pulled McDougall as a witness

Nothing lost there really.

Jury probably had enough about hearing Chump and sex stuff anyway.

Enough to gag a maggot.