Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2024 04:21:24 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: GUILTY. All 34 counts. Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: Content-Language: en-US From: trotsky In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 43 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2024 09:21:24 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 2670 X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17d52584b3856cb2$8292$2724781$4ad50060@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 3087 On 6/1/24 3:19 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > On May 31, 2024 at 7:43:16 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" wrote: > >> shawn wrote: >>> Sat, 1 Jun 2024 10:54:32 +1200, Your Name wrote: >>>> On 2024-05-31 10:46:00 +0000, FPP said: >>>>> On 5/31/24 4:48 AM, trotsky wrote: >>>>>> On 5/30/24 4:17 PM, FPP wrote: >> >>>>>>> GUILTY. All 34 counts. >> >>>>>> I called it. Let the whining begin! >> >>>>> Yup... I was shooting for Friday. Really surprised, since a half hour >>>>> before, the judge was shutting it down for the day. >> >>>> Trump the Chump's whining startedd immediately and his braindead >>>> supports declared "war" not long after. >> >>>> Not that this decision means anything in reality. The whole mess will >>>> drag on for years longer yet with numerous appeals, counter-appeals, >>>> etc. Trump the Chump and most of the witnesses will be dead of old age >>>> before it ends, and even then you'll probably have their kids trying to >>>> clear their names one way or another. >> >>> Not that long but yes, it will likely go on for a couple of years. >>> There are two level of appeals at the NY state level and then Trump >>> can try to jump to the US Supreme Court if both levels of appeal fail >>> to overturn the verdict. >> >> There's no direct appeal from state court to federal court. They have to >> find a federal issue to dispute. > > There is a federal issue. The predicate crime that the state used to bootstrap > the state charges despite it being beyond the statute of limitations was a > federal crime, and one that both the DOJ and the FEC had already looked at and > determined there was no violation. So the question of whether the entire basis > of the state's case was valid is a federal question. You'll have to be more specific about what was "beyond the statute of limitations" because this sounds like utter horseshit as usual.