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Equal Injustice: Menendez Indictment Does
Not Prove Equal Justice

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Posted By: Mercedes44, 9/27/2023 10:45:40 AM

In both the Menendez and Trump cases, prosecutors are engaging in the questionable tactic of seeking to influence the jury before trial. Both show and tells [Menendez's gold bars and Trump's documents] are wrong. Both are intended to prejudice potential jurors and witnesses and to try the case in the court of public opinion before it is subject to the adversarial process to the courts of law. Two wrongs do not make a right -- nor do they cancel each other out.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Lawsy0 9/27/2023 11:00:17 AM (No. 1564427)
I heard the Dersh talking about this last night. Not many treasures like this man remain for us. He is right and is on the side of right (not actually The Right).
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Reply 2 - Posted by: marbles 9/27/2023 11:00:33 AM (No. 1564428)
The author states that Menendez had been a very good senator, a moderate. I live in NJ. Sorry Alan , I aint buying what you're selling.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Jethro bo 9/27/2023 11:18:47 AM (No. 1564441)
Ok, Al. So we know the Dept of Just-Us wipes it behind with the Constitution. We know it. What is needed is a major league attitude adjustment of the Dept of Just-Us. Be nice if an Obambi Judge thinking he/she/it has to protect a democrat actually ruled the leaked photos of evidence and the evidence are inadmissible in court. That would stop a lot of this crap right fast and in a hurry. But Judges seem as interested in wiping their behinds with the constitution as the Dept of Just-Us so justice will never actually occur.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: WhamDBambam 9/27/2023 11:53:40 AM (No. 1564447)
His concern about the current Department of "Justice" trying the case in public attempting to prejudice potential jurors should be more widely shared and discussed. Most judges wouldn't let it go on, I hope.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: BeatleJeff 9/27/2023 1:12:38 PM (No. 1564500)
Not to defend Mendacious - he's a dirtbag, always has been, always will be - but I'd love to know what he did to make himself a constant target of the corruptocrats at DOJ/Stasi. You could nail almost any given DemocRat for what they just charged him with, yet they seem insistent on just prosecuting him.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Rinktum 9/27/2023 3:14:43 PM (No. 1564590)
Dershowitz is getting on my last nerve. Unless he has some serious inside knowledge about the case against a trump, he needs to keep his opinion of wrongdoing and to himself. He is not the judge or the jury, just a paid legal talking head, and they are a dime a dozen. He should know better. Each time he pronounces Trump guilty, he is showing extreme bias.
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