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

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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.