231231 this is cnn. the world s news the next verdict will come on election day. i m michael smerconish and philadelphia donald trump is the first former us president to be a convicted felon. but will the verdict help or hurt is 2024 campaign non-white voters may have the answer. here s a part of what some of the callers and the popular morning radio program, the breakfast club had to say after the verdict faster, like trump s 30 trust the system at all. i feel their railroad and body system and you see that when she walked in the courtroom to be guilty, you gonna be guilty? how can anybody blackboard provide it trump? were you i d rather have president wright, who s going to be honest and show me a whole, then have a president who s going to allow me to try to get me up, to get my vote breakfast club, host charlemagne, the god is going to join me in just a moment in the most recent poll of battleground states, which included third-party candidates, biden had only 49% support
prosecution. do you agree with me that this is a legitimate appellant issue for trump? he can put it in the way that i put it. i don t know for what i was convicted there are two appellate issues here. the first one is what you said look, a basic fundamental principle of our criminal law process, of our constitution is a defendant is entitled to notice in advance of trial with specificity what he s being charged as for what he s being tried for that s why we have indictments. now the indictment in this case does not specify what the underlying quote-unquote unlawful means are. and in fact, i found this to be shocking. frankly, the judge did not make the prosecutors commit to any of those unlawful means until we were just it s about into closing arguments. so that s gonna be appeal issue number one. i was never put on specific notice of what i was being tried for appeal argument number two is going to be this one of the bases for conviction here. one of the unlawful means is a violati