careful in that regard, christi. here s why. you can argue the cases could have some similarity because of the whole me too movement, time s up, the abuse against women. you want to hold people accountable. cosby s case related to a prosecution where he was told you were not being prosecuted. the da at the time in 2005 investigated the case, made a decision i m not moving forward. as a result of that decision, dcosby spoke and incriminated himself. those are not the facts with mr. weinstein. he was not offered a nonprosecution deal and then waived his fifth amendment rights, spoke to authorities, incriminated himself and were prosecuted. the two cases are not similarly situated. it has very little to do with the court decision as it related
this idea that s the promise of nonprosecution was a valid for future prosecutors, he did agree that inviting these other victims into give statements and testimony during the trial was improper. yes, and from listening to prior comments on the story, i think that i must be the only person who is not surprised one little bit about this conviction being overturned. i recall the second trial, i knew that the prior bad evidence by trying in several other systems was going to be legally problematic for the prosecution. it was not a violation of due process, and it led to his ultimate conviction and mailed the ultimate overturning of that conviction, not surprised by this. john: if they had not brought in the five witnesses, he would likely spend no time and jail.
ms. constand did not promptly report. that s a rape myth. in fact, dr. testified in the cosby criminal case. it is a myth that somehow if rape victims don t prom thely support to police that somehow the rape didn t occur or the sexual assault didn t occur. that s one reason i think he was wrong not to prosecute. having said that, his failure to prosecute now, the court has decided, the supreme court that when a prosecutor makes what the court decided was an unconditional promise of nonprosecution and when the defendant, in this case mr. cosby, relies on that guarantee to the detriment of his constitutional right not to testify, in other words, not to invoke his fifth amendment privilege against self-incrimination. these are my words. they say then that his due
motivated fishing expedition. joining us now is author of unprecedented, and white collar criminal defense attorney, good morning to you. and with being granted immunity, what is the significance of the testimony and will prosecutors use this to try to turn weisselberg into cooperating. merconi is not the first and last employee that we will hear from before this grand jury testifying and the idea of immunity means a promise of nonprosecution so he can freely testify and spill the beans. now, remember, that weisselberg has the key to the castle in terms of potentially what donald trump knew, in terms of the deflate and inflate of trump organization assets, so this is a very key witness, even though we will hear from additional employees. he s like you said, very high ranking, 35 years with the trump organization, almost as long as weisselberg has worked for the
before the 2016 campaign ever happened, president trump s campaign chairman ran this scheme in ukraine. president trump s campaign chairman in prison now. his deputy who was trying to stay out of prison now is acting as a cooperating witness in part by unraveling this scheme in open court. the scheme itself now threatens to put in jail president obama s first white house counsel. it has caused president obama s first white house counsel s super fancy law firm to enter into a formal nonprosecution settlement with the justice department. and now today in court, rick gates started implement k eed i multiple high-end d.c. lobbying firms in the scheme, as well. firms run by democrats and by republicans. you know, part of the story is that the sitting president of the united states turns out to have hired some amazing people along his way to the white house. quite a number of whom have since been sent to prison or are awaiting sentencing.