Source: New York Post
by Jonathan Turley
“For many of us in the legal community, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against former President Donald Trump borders on the legally obscene: an openly political prosecution based on a theory even legal pundits dismiss. Yet Monday the prosecution seemed to actually make a case for obscenity. It wasn’t the gratuitous introduction of an uncharged alleged tryst with a former Playboy Bunny or expected details on the relationship with an ex-porn star. It was the criminal theory itself that seemed crafted around the obscenity standard Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously described in 1984’s Jacobellis v. Ohio: ‘I shall not today attempt further to define [it]. … But I know it when I see it.’ The prosecution must show Trump falsified business records in ‘furtherance of another crime.'” (04/24/24)
https://nypost.com/2024/04/24/opinion/alvin-bragg-has-his-trump-trial-all-he-needs-now-is-a-crime/