Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro,' a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MSNBC, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
A lawyer’s credibility is all they have with a judge. Donald Trump’s criminal defense lawyer in Manhattan may be losing that valuable currency in the early days of the hush money trial. The judge himself said so. At a hearing over whether Trump violated a gag order in his first criminal trial, Judge Juan Merchan voiced disbelief when attorney Todd Blanche said that Trump was attempting to comply with the judge's order. “Mr.
The hearing Tuesday morning was followed by the trial’s first witness, David Pecker, retaking the stand on direct examination by the prosecution. Regardless of the precise outcome of the gag order hearing, Trump’s lawyer losing credibility with the judge at this early stage of the trial could be its most significant upshot. Trials are filled with daily decisions by judges on matters large and small related to witnesses, evidence, scheduling and more.
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