• @[email protected]
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    251 year ago

    No one is going to spend 40 years in jail for Trump. When he realized they had evidence implicating him in the destruction of evidence it was a forgone conclusion he’d flip. Also the Trump lawyer that told the IT manager to lie to investigators needs to be charged as well.

    • Kushan
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      81 year ago

      IANAL, but isn’t there like a whole thing around you can appeal if you got bad legal advice?

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            Yes, but usually disbarment is sufficient punishment for corrupt fuckers and a deterrent message to the legal community - permanently losing your livelihood and being publicly shamed in the process, while not a criminal proceeding, is extremely (and justly) punitive. That said, if there was a decent likelihood of the fucker becoming a media personality after disbarment, or otherwise capitalizing on their punishment, I’d suspect that a DA might consider criminal charges.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              He actively participated in covering up a coup.

              People were executed for less in this country.

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              21 year ago

              A lawyer telling a client to commit perjury in a federal case surrounding a former head of state is absolutely worth prosecuting.

              This isn’t Keny Lay pretending he didn’t know what was for me on at Enron. This is a lawyer hired specifically to defend someone other than his client and intentionally telling his client to lie - which is knowingly and intentionally bad legal advice.

              A lawyer really can’t do anything worse from a professional or legal standpoint.

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                11 year ago

                I realized I was talking from a more general perspective — you’ll get no arguments from me against prosecuting the fuck out of these folks. You’re totally right.