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noneof_theabove

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8. There is a rule

Reply to ffr (Original post)

Thu Oct 24, 2019, 07:00 PM

Oct 2019

Link: https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/solosez/solosez_11_thread_1_contacting_a_non.authcheckdam.pdf

You can talk to a non-party witness as much and in as detailed a fashion as
you wish, as long as you neither suggest nor provide answers for them.

Do you really believe the were "seeing how the grand-kids are doing"?

Nothing a ReThug does is illegal until they get caught.

In this case, answer with the absolute same answer, then I call tampering.

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House Dems Accuse Impeachment Witnesses of Coordinating Testimony [View all] ffr Oct 2019 OP

Time for SDNY to start the subpoenas. dem4decades Oct 2019 #1

What does the SDNY have to do with this? onenote Oct 2019 #3

Didn't SDNY just arrest two people involved with Ukraine? dem4decades Oct 2019 #9

THIS orangecrush Oct 2019 #14

....is not a sentence DemocracyMouse Oct 2019 #16

I see what you did there. calimary Oct 2019 #22

THIS SURE IS! orangecrush Oct 2019 #27

..Let's say this is true, and a couple of "rat__cking republicans" are doing this. Stuart G Oct 2019 #2

It is a common misperception that it is illegal for witnesses to communicate with each other onenote Oct 2019 #4

But if witnesses have to coordinate what they say, docgee Oct 2019 #5

there would need to be actual evidence of perjury onenote Oct 2019 #6

If they conspire to give false testimony, that's not a crime? dem4decades Oct 2019 #10

If they give false testimony individually its also a crime onenote Oct 2019 #19

Consider the witnesses. dem4decades Oct 2019 #21

So you'd convict a witness of perjury simply because you don't like the witness. onenote Oct 2019 #23

I thought we all just assumed that witness tampering was occurring... EarthFirst Oct 2019 #7

+1 Lulu KC Oct 2019 #17

witnesses speaking to each other isn't witness tampering. onenote Oct 2019 #25

There is a rule noneof_theabove Oct 2019 #8

An attorney can ask them what they know, what they plan to say. onenote Oct 2019 #24

Sondland and Volker? Mr. Ected Oct 2019 #11

Yeah, my first thought as well, Mr. ...shifty people, seems like Leghorn21 Oct 2019 #26

Could this blow up the impeachment? Quemado Oct 2019 #12

Unfortunately for Tronald Dump, he confessed on TV, Hassler Oct 2019 #13

The repiggies are lying sacks of shit. warmfeet Oct 2019 #15

Let them. All it does it set themselves up for perjury charges down the road if they lie. cstanleytech Oct 2019 #18

Two Democratic lawmakers ... DOES NOT EQUAL ... GeorgeGist Oct 2019 #20