While a good offense may be the best defense, a flimsy offense sends a message of impending trouble, writes Michael Conway.
The fact that federal courts approved the questioning of Trump’s lawyers seems an impenetrable defense to any claim that this action constituted prosecutorial misconduct.
Once again, such a hypothetical misconduct claim falters because a federal magistrate judge authorized the search warrant. Former President Donald Trump with his attorneys Joe Tacopina and Boris Epshteyn at his arraignment for his first indictment in New York on April 4.While prosecutorial misconduct theoretically can result in derailing an otherwise appropriate criminal prosecution, this defense rarely succeeds.
This post also seemed to be spreading a conspiratorial theory that Justice Department prosecutors tried to “bribe and intimidate” a defense lawyer representing a witness by offering the lawyer an “important judgeship.”made by Trump lawyers, first reported by The New York Times, that a federal prosecutor had “brought up” that lawyer’s municipal judgeship application, which Trump lawyers believed was a “veiled threat.” A spokesman for Smith had no comment about the incident.
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