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Merchan Will Jail Trump Unless SCOTUS Intervenes

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Posted By: Garnet, 6/3/2024 12:58:38 AM

The conviction of former President Trump in the so-called hush-money trial has inevitably led to a lot of speculation concerning whether he will be sentenced to prison. A number of legal experts have suggested that it is unlikely. Normally this would be a reasonable prediction. Unfortunately, there was nothing normal about this trial. The “felonies” for which Trump was convicted were concocted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg based on a legal theory that had never been used in any court. As to presiding judge Juan Merchan, he is a political partisan bristling with conflicts of interest.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: danu 6/3/2024 1:18:35 AM (No. 1729998)
this garbage judge, garbage grifting, garbage DA, garbage jury, garbage rulings that violate everything in the law books for a garbage verdict is driving crybaby whinging, based upon...wait for it...bush v gore...almost 25 years later. as if these cases are remotely related, to anything, in this galaxy. straighten up. fly right.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Flyball Dogs 6/3/2024 1:27:01 AM (No. 1730004)
FTA: “ This is why Donald Trump loses an occasional battle, but will eventually win the war. He believes in America. His Lilliputian opponents don’t even know what it is.” We haven’t had a President who LOVES this country since Reagan. (I look back on the “W years” and cannot figure it out. He was so checked out. Except when he was pushing war. Was he drinking? Drugs? I don’t know. But his presidency is an enigma.)
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Reply 3 - Posted by: mifla 6/3/2024 4:13:46 AM (No. 1730025)
Bragg will ask for jail and Merchan will double the requested time. Then he will order Trump to jail immediately, despite any intent of appeal.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: FJB 2022 23 24 6/3/2024 5:06:01 AM (No. 1730054)
The Supremes need to act immediately, not only for the injustice done to Trump, but what this has done to the entire judicial system. This sham trial design to persecute for political reasons cannot stand. The longer this goes on the more damage it creates and those behind this need to be dealt with in the strongest way possible.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: petrichor 6/3/2024 6:41:15 AM (No. 1730073)
I wouldn't count on the Appeals Court reversing the conviction. After all, they are New Yorkers, aren't they? If the Appeals Court fails Trump then it's up to the Supremes who, I assume, would apply the Constitution and that will free Trump. Of course, the Dems will accuse the Supremes of being partisan and we'll be back to square one.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Bur Oak 6/3/2024 7:47:01 AM (No. 1730131)
Of course Juan Merchan will jail President Trump. Imagine what the corrupt judiciary and prosecution can do to anyone else. See also the Jan. 6 persecuted. Habakkuk's Complaint, "Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous so that justice is perverted." Habakkuk 1:4
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Reply 7 - Posted by: bpl40 6/3/2024 8:17:57 AM (No. 1730165)
The best (for his goals) that Merchan can do is to sentence Trump to a year in prison and four years of probation . Then suspend the sentence with all it's associated restrictions until Election Day. That will take care of the Left mob howling for blood and give the SCOTUS justification to wait out the appeals process. But unfortunately, his puppeteers in the White House are so scared of a Trump rampaging through the country drawing tens of thousands in rally after rally, that all reason and logic has left their brains. Only fear and TDS remains.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Encore 6/3/2024 8:54:32 AM (No. 1730191)
Trump is the obvious front runner in a national election. How can the SC NOT get involved?
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