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https://www.nj.com/news/2024/06/trump-and-maga-pin-mistrial-hopes-on-leaked-verdict-by-professional-sh-tposter.html
Convicted felons — at least those with millions to spend on lawyers — often lead the league in Hail Mary passes: They appeal their verdict and/or the judge’s instructions to the jury, insist witnesses committed perjury or that the sentence was too harsh.
No stone will go unturned to find something — anything — to hang desperate hopes on.
With a July 11 sentencing, Donald Trump is no different.
After trying to invalidate the verdict before it was delivered — with attacks on the Manhattan court before during and after the trial — the former president and his MAGA followers are now pinning their hopes for a retrial on a Facebook post, likely by a troll, which allegedly leaked his guilty verdicts the day before the jury delivered it.
Judge Juan Merchan, likely out of an abundance of transparency and caution, alerted Trump’s attorneys and the prosecution of a random Facebook comment left on the New York Unified Courts Facebook page — a post that seemingly slipped past even Trump’s lawyers, who have been combing the internet for any reasons to appeal Trump’s 34 convictions.
Convicted felons — at least those with millions to spend on lawyers — often lead the league in Hail Mary passes: They appeal their verdict and/or the judge’s instructions to the jury, insist witnesses committed perjury or that the sentence was too harsh.
No stone will go unturned to find something — anything — to hang desperate hopes on.
With a July 11 sentencing, Donald Trump is no different.
After trying to invalidate the verdict before it was delivered — with attacks on the Manhattan court before during and after the trial — the former president and his MAGA followers are now pinning their hopes for a retrial on a Facebook post, likely by a troll, which allegedly leaked his guilty verdicts the day before the jury delivered it.
Judge Juan Merchan, likely out of an abundance of transparency and caution, alerted Trump’s attorneys and the prosecution of a random Facebook comment left on the New York Unified Courts Facebook page — a post that seemingly slipped past even Trump’s lawyers, who have been combing the internet for any reasons to appeal Trump’s 34 convictions.
