06-04-2024, 10:32 AM
Adding to my point 3: During the charges conference, Trump's defense team agreed and acknowledged that the portion of the jury instructions regarding unanimity was the law and they were looking for an exception:
This means that this issue will fall flat on appeal.
Quote:MR. BOVE: That is the heart of the dispute in these two competing proposals, is whether the jury should be required to find unanimously which of the 17-152 unlawful means are at issue.(Source, Page 109)
We understand the law that's been cited here.
We think your Honor has some discretion.
This is, obviously, an extraordinarily important case.
We do have a motion pending from yesterday, still.
Assuming this is going to go to the jury, in the way that these statutes are being used in this case -- which there's not much, if any, precedent for -- we submit that the jury should be required to make very specific findings, as specific as Your Honor's discretion would permit, so it's very clear what happened at this trial.
THE COURT: Do you agree, that's not ordinarily required?
MR. BOVE: Certainly.
This means that this issue will fall flat on appeal.
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