Taking ‘cliff option’ away from NYC jury could give Trump a ‘very significant advantage’: Turley
Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley on the strategy Trump's team can do in response to the New York hush money trial
Fox News contributor and GWU Law professor Jonathan Turley explained on "Fox & Friends" Friday the legal card Trump's defense team could use to their advantage in the hush-money case, even though it may be met with "personal resistance" from the former president.
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JONATHAN TURLEY: The second issue involves a fairly standard motion that occurs when you believe that the jury may not agree that the big ticket item of a charge, the felonies, is proven, and you want the court to give an instruction saying you can always convict on a lesser included offense – in this case a misdemeanor. Now, sometimes the defense doesn't want to do that. Sometimes they just want to leave the jury with the cliff option, thinking that they don't want to go over the cliff so they'll go ahead and acquit. But many times, this works in favor of the defense. For Trump, there could be personal resistance to even suggesting a possible misdemeanor conviction, but politically and legally, it would be a very significant advantage for him.
Former President Donald Trump, left, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, right. Photographer: Mary Altaffer/AP/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Getty Images)
El juicio de Trump por suplantación de identidad, que está previsto que comience el lunes, es la primera de las cuatro acusaciones penales que tiene programadas para ir a juicio y sería el primer juicio penal de la historia contra un ex presidente.
Se le acusa de falsificar los registros de su empresa para ocultar la naturaleza de los pagos a su ex abogado y apañador Michael Cohen, que ayudó a Trump a enterrar historias negativas durante su campaña de 2016.
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Entre las actividades de Cohen se incluye el pago a la actriz porno Stormy Daniels de 130.000 dólares para suprimir sus afirmaciones sobre un encuentro sexual extramatrimonial con Trump años antes.
Fox News' Bradford Betz, Maria Paronich and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
