NY - Former President Donald Trump charged with 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records, Apr 2023

[Cool Cats]

What Trump risks if he keeps talking about the judge in his N.Y. criminal case

The former president has suggested Judge Juan Merchan is biased and referred to District Attorney Alvin Bragg as an "animal." Could the court limit his ability to speak about the case?

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Stunned]

What Trump risks if he keeps talking about the judge in his N.Y. criminal case

The former president has suggested Judge Juan Merchan is biased and referred to District Attorney Alvin Bragg as an "animal." Could the court limit his ability to speak about the case?

www.nbcnews.com

Lol! Keep talking #45! IMO

 

[TootsieFootsie]

He'll keep talking.
He won't be able to resist.

 

[MyBelle]

What Trump risks if he keeps talking about the judge in his N.Y. criminal case

The former president has suggested Judge Juan Merchan is biased and referred to District Attorney Alvin Bragg as an "animal." Could the court limit his ability to speak about the case?

www.nbcnews.com

I had no idea he called the DA an "animal." That's an awful thing to say about anyone. smh

 

[JennieM]

NYU warns employees of potential protests ahead of Trump's arraignment​

Julianne McShane and Zoë Richards

New York University today told its employees to be prepared for potentially “significant demonstrations" leading up to Trump's arraignment tomorrow.

"While City authorities have not shared word of any specific threats or anticipated violence, they are very publicly making preparations in the event that any protests or demonstrations do become disruptive," Fountain Walker, the school’s vice president for global campus safety, said in a memo. "With that in mind, I wanted to urge NYU employees to take extra care as you move about the city this evening and tomorrow."

Many of NYU’s main buildings are in Lower Manhattan, surrounding Washington Square Park, just over a mile from the courthouse where Trump's arraignment is scheduled to take place tomorrow.

Trump indictment live updates: Trump arrives in NY for Tuesday arraignment

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[sds71]

Trump to be formally arrested and charged with 34 Class E felonies for falsification of business records tomorrow. But he will not be handcuffed, placed in a jail cell or subjected to a mug shot, per a source debriefed on Tuesday's procedures.

But, the source said, Trump will not be put in handcuffs, placed in a jail cell or subjected to a mug shot — the procedures usually followed for even white collar defendants until a judge has weighed in on pre-trial conditions.

The charge of falsification of business records is normally prosecuted in New York state as a misdemeanor. But Bragg’s office bumped up all the charges to Class E felonies — the lowest level of felonies in the New York State penal code on the grounds that the conduct was intended to conceal another underlying crime, according to the source.

The evidence for the underlying crime that escalated Trump's alleged misdemeanors to felonies is still not clear and won't be until the indictment is unsealed Tuesday.

Exclusive: Trump to be charged Tuesday with 34 felony counts, but spared handcuffs and mug shot

Donald Trump will be placed under arrest on Tuesday and informed that he has been charged with 34 felony counts for falsification of business records, according to a source who has been briefed on the procedures for the arraignment of the former president.

news.yahoo.com

 

[everybodhi]

It's been a few years but let's not forget that more than 200 people were arrested during the 2017 inauguration of Trump.

Yes, including journalists!
And don’t forget the Bible photo up incident.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...42f2d8-a6a2-11eb-8d25-7b30e74923ea_story.html

“MPD’s unconstitutional guilt-by-
association policing and excessive force, including the use of chemical weapons, not only injured our clients physically but also chilled their speech and the speech of countless others who wished to exercise their First Amendment rights but feared an unwarranted assault by D.C. police,” ACLU-DC Legal Director Scott Michelman said in a statement announcing the settlement.
“It speaks volumes that the District has chosen to settle rather than defend MPD’s obviously unconstitutional actions in court,” Light said in the statement.

The 2017 arrests followed a decades-long history of litigation over how police handle mass protests in Washington. The settlement comes as the ACLU, Black Lives Matter and other civil rights groups accuse the Trump administration and federal and military police of violently clearing Lafayette Square in June to enable a photo op of Trump holding a Bible outside the historic St. John’s Church.

 

[kaen]

Fairly gross and not-former-presidential, JMHO. The lawyer is being careful because he has to work with judges and prosecutors going forward. Mr. Trump will certainly benefit from a gag order since he can't seem to help himself.

From What Trump risks if he keeps talking about the judge in his N.Y. criminal case

Fairly gross and not-former-presidential, JMHO.
Without evidence, he's referred to Judge Juan Merchan as “Trump Hating” and suggested that Merchan was “handpicked” by Bragg. In an interview Sunday on ABC's "This Week," Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, was asked about the attacks and whether he believes the judge harbors any slant.

"No, I don’t believe the judge is biased. I mean, the president is entitled to his own opinion," Tacopina said.




"Trump has referred to Bragg as an “animal” in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social. In an earlier Truth Social post, he appears to have shared an article that included an image of him wielding a baseball bat juxtaposed next to an image of Bragg’s head. That post was deleted."

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Trump to be formally arrested and charged with 34 Class E felonies for falsification of business records tomorrow. But he will not be handcuffed, placed in a jail cell or subjected to a mug shot, per a source debriefed on Tuesday's procedures.

Awww

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Donald Trump hunkers down in New York ahead of arraignment

New York's mayor issued a warning to what he termed "rabble rousers" to control their "misplaced anger".

www.bbc.com

 

[karen in New York]

New York Consolidated Laws, Criminal Procedure Law - CPL § 30.10 Timeliness of prosecutions;  periods of limitation​

(c) A prosecution for a misdemeanor must be commenced within two years after the commission thereof;

(d) A prosecution for any misdemeanor set forth in the tax law or chapter forty-six of the administrative code of the city of New York must be commenced within three years after the commission thereof.

Looks like the statute of limitations is up. JMO.

New York Consolidated Laws, Criminal Procedure Law - CPL § 30.10 | FindLaw

New York Criminal Procedure Law CPL NY CRIM PRO Section 30.10. Read the code on FindLaw

codes.findlaw.com

We answered this question last night back a few pages. COVID and other circumstances changed that date. I'm not going to look back but its only a few pages back if you are really interested in the answer.

 

[everybodhi]

Your link say there's a 5 year extension. Where did you find the first 5 year statute of limitation for this case to come up with a 10 year total?

It’s been repeatedly posted on the thread but it’s also in the link I provided detailing extensions, “Criminal Statutes of Limitations: Time Limits for State Charges”

 

[RANCH]

It’s been repeatedly posted on the thread but it’s also in the link I provided detailing extensions, “Criminal Statutes of Limitations: Time Limits for State Charges”
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Thanks. Sorry to bother you. I got confused a bit.

 

[passionflower]

I had no idea he called the DA an "animal." That's an awful thing to say about anyone. smh

He is so prejudice like his father was

 

[everybodhi]

Thanks. Sorry to bother you. I got confused a bit.

No worries. Law can be difficult and confusing to read but it seems unlikely to me that the prosecutors and judge would allow such a high profile case to be filed if it was past it limitations. Jmo

 

[whatsupp]

Andrew Cuomo slams NY, Georgia investigations into Trump as feeding ‘cancer in our body politic’

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) slammed the New York and Georgia investigations into former President Trump as being part of a “cancer in our body politic,” arguing they are politically motiv…

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Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) slammed the New York and Georgia investigations into former President Trump as being part of a “cancer in our body politic,” arguing they are politically motivated.

Cuomo told John Catsimatidis, who hosts the talk radio show “The Cats Roundtable,” in an interview on WABC 770 that he expects Trump will be indicted in Manhattan next week. He said he “doesn’t understand” why Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) is “putting such an emphasis” on the case investigating a hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

Cuomo argued that the case should be over a possible misdemeanor, but also that it should be a federal case instead of a state one.

 

[JennieM]

Trump lawyer says a gag order would 'set ablaze' tensions surrounding the case​

Zoë Richards
Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina today said that if Judge Juan Merchan were to issue a gag order against the former president it would “really set ablaze the passions and the tempers that already have been inflamed by this case.”

Tacopina, however, predicted that the judge would not issue an order that could prevent Trump from speaking about the case.

"Obviously, that's not going to happen," Tacopina told Fox News’ Sean Hannity when asked about the possibility. "There's no scenario where that's going to happen, I'm sure of that."

Trump had previously warned of "potential death and destruction" if he were to be indicted.

Tacopina went on to say that Trump planned to plead "very loudly 'not guilty' before the judge," adding that Trump's legal team was preparing to file "a host of motions," including a motion to dismiss the case, citing what Tacopina argued was selective prosecution and prosecutorial misconduct.

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[JennieM]

Judge bars use of digital devices in courtroom but will allow some photographers before arraignment begins​

Adam Reiss and Zoë Richards
In an order tonight, Judge Juan Merchan said that cellphones and laptops cannot be used in the courtroom during Trump’s hearing tomorrow.

Cameras will be allowed in the courtroom before the arraignment begins, Merchan said, and then in the hallways after that.

The order comes after Trump's legal team asked Merchan to deny a request from media organizations, including NBC News, to allow access to "a limited number" of videographers, photographers, radio journalists, as well as print reporters, to Trump's arraignment.

The news organizations had also asked Merchan to permit the immediate unsealing of Trump’s indictment, in addition to requesting audio and visual access to Tuesday’s arraignment, which will take place at 2:15 p.m.

In their letter opposing the media request, Trump's lawyers had suggested that such access would "create a circus-like atmosphere at the arraignment" and raise "unique security concerns."

Trump indictment live updates: Trump arrives in NY for Tuesday arraignment

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[Cool Cats]

Donald Trump expected to unleash wave of legal challenges after Tuesday arraignment in New York

In every major court battle Donald Trump has waged, the former president has reverted to a now-familiar script: cue the legal tsunami.

www.usatoday.com

Legal analysts said there was no shortage of avenues to pursue for a defendant known for his efforts to slow-walk the legal process, especially when he has been at possible risk.

"It is an understatement to say that he (Trump) has a litigious style," said Joshua Ritter, a former Los Angeles County prosecutor. "You're going to see challenges to everything, every step of the way."

 

[Stunned]

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It has to be a fair trial for him to finally be found guilty and for this long nightmare to finally be over on the first attempt! IMO