Just The News:
A Manhattan district attorney’s effort to prosecute former Trump 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort has ended now that New York’s highest court has decided not to review a lower court rulings on the case.
The state’s Court of Appeals made a decision last week to let stand a lower-court ruling that Manafort was barred by the double jeopardy rule, reported first Monday by The New York Times.
Manafort had faced state charges for mortgage fraud and other state felonies, crimes similar to those for which he was convicted in federal court, then pardoned for last month by Trump. read more
I still wonder how how the officers in the Rodney King case were convicted in Federal Court. They were acquitted for the actions they took against Rodney King, then they were convicted for the actions they took against Rodney King. How does that work? Does that mean that if someone is acquitted, you just call it something else and try them in a different court and all is good?
I don’t think that was the idea behind the Double Jeopardy rule.
There are many, many DA’s in this country that need to gotten rid of.
New York DA’s, rotten to the core.
Gosh. Since you can try someone for wrongful death when a murder charge doesn’t hold, then why can’t Manafort’s mortgage fraud be tried again as wrongful borrowing?
Everyone but the treasonous Michael Cohen gets off – how fitting
The unspoken truth is that “Justice” moved from investigating crimes to investigating persons. Pick a person, investigate until a crime is discovered, prosecute until a conviction is won.
This is not totally new but it seems to have accelerated in recent years.
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!”
Isaiah 5:20
Hey Vance, There are no extra points for being the last one to beat the dead horse. What a waste of resources.