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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
IANAL, but isn’t there like a whole thing around you can appeal if you got bad legal advice?
Yes, and the lawyer should be disbarred for telling a client to commit purgery.
Seriously. I mean, this isn’t brain serjury
Nice.
Can the lawyer be charged with some sort of crime?
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.
He actively participated in covering up a coup.
People were executed for less in this country.
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.
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.
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I mean, the dumb ones might…