re: Trump Trial: Judge Merchan won't allow certain Defense testimony

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He also isn't allowing in an email that was sent to Cohen to impeach his testimony


It literally says in the evidence rules in all 50 states and in the federal rules that an out of court statement used to impeach is not hearsay.

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Yep. This judge should be removed, disbarred and imprisoned.

As for the expert witness issue, if the other side doesn't use one, that doesn't mean the defense cannot. If the state has presented such testimony, then this is fricking retarded and the defense should seek immediate relief from a higher court.

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He also isn't allowing in an email that was sent to Cohen to impeach his testimony

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This is a much bigger deal to me than the campaign finance guy.

There was a meeting between Cohen and Costello. After the meeting, an email was sent to Cohen saying essentially, "just confirming you said 'x'"

Then, Cohen takes the stand years later in this trial and says 'y'

Defense wants to show him the email and the judge won't let them claiming it was hearsay. Defense even argued that they don't care about the truth of the email because the fact that Cohen received it and never responded is both probative and relevant. Judge disagrees.

This is one of the easiest issues a judge would ever see in a trial. It is 1000000000% admissible/usable by a defense lawyer in that context. Bad judges can make bad rulings, but this one takes the cake...there is no real way to look at it other than intentional bias.