Not credible as a matter of law is not something that judges really do i think that to a certain extent the judge was cutting through and saying the standard here is that no reasonable juror could possibly find on these facts and that usually is successful. If the evidence produced the trial skips and element entirely, you have no evidence of a Shooting Evidence is somebody got shot and then they just forget to bring in the autopsy so that nobody actually testifies the guy died. Then you ask for judgment as a matter of law that acquitting on the murder case because there was no evidence of a death and so its unlikely to do here and so i think the judge is kinda needling todd a little bit there with the with the whole idea of not quite able as a matter of law, i will say though these types of motions, even though from the defense sayyed, you know that youre unlikely to win its very useful to prepare for the closing because you kind of preview your argument and then you see what the pros
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Jeremy diamond in tel aviv. And this is cnn moment in American History tomorrow for the first time, prosecutors will present Opening Statements and a criminal trial of a former President Donald Trump will walk into a manhattan courtroom tomorrow morning, where he will hear the states case against him. Hes facing dozens of charges related to an alleged Hush Money Payment to Adult Film Actress Stormy Daniels made before the 2016 election this is the first of four criminal cases against trump to go on trial. Cnns Marshall Cohen joining us right now with more on all this, marshall walk us through what the trial just might look like. Hey fred, its History In The Making with Opening Statements scheduled for tomorrow morning in new york. This is the very first time in our nations history that a former president will sit for a criminal trial. Lets just zoom out fred and remind everybody how the heck we got here donald trump is facing 34 felony charges. These are state charges brought by the ma
The pressure make the trump hurry crack. Thats tonight on news nine good evening. Im abby phillip in new york week one of Donald Trumps historic trial is now etched in the history books, and it ends with a full jury box. When to starts with Opening Statements and we lead into it with a defining question. Can the men and women whove been selected to decide the former president s fate with Stand The Trump High waves that will swallow their entire existence. For the next six to eight weeks the jurors come from all parts of the city, west harlem, hells kitchen, chelsea, upper west and upper east sides. Some work in sales, others in finance. Others are lawyers. And they all say that they can be fair despite what theyve read or said about donald trump in the past, that juror number 11 quipped at one point i dont like some of my coworkers, but i dont try to sabotage their work. Fair enough. And from the minute the judge gambled in on thursday morning to the minute the court adjourned today re
left the courthouse back to trump tower, arriving there, that s what you re looking at on the screen supporters read it him there cheering others were there, channing, quote lock him up obviously, an echo of what he had said about hillary clinton just moments ago, the new york district attorney speaking out for the first time celebrating his victory but most importantly today, we have the most important voice of all. and as the voice of the jurors they have spoken donald j. trump has been convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records. thank you. said from now on, we re going to hear from them in court documents as a sentencing is coming next. meanwhile, and angry trump rattled off the long list of complaints about this process here he is this was a rigged trial by unconflicted judge who was corrupt so rig trial and disgrace it wouldn t give us a venue change. we were at 5% or 6% and this district in this area, this was a rigged, disgraceful trial. you have a sou