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Former Trump Lawyer Accuses Biden Of Coordinating To Prosecute Trump

More projection from former Trump attorney turned “legal spokesperson” Alina Habba on Fox “news” this week. Habba made an appearance on this Thursday’s Hannity, and here’s the exchange between her and guest host, Judge Box-O-Wine Jeanine Pirro on the proceedings in Fulton County, Georgia now that the judge allowed Fani Willis to remain on the case, with Habba pushing the debunked lie that the Biden administration coordinated with the Justice Department to prosecute Trump.

PIRRO: Alina, welcome. It has been a very interesting week. The argument this week, actually today in Fulton County before Judge McAfee, regarding the claim by the president’s attorney and some of the co-defendants’ attorneys, that the essence of the indictment has to do more with the First Amendment and free speech than a crime and RICO. What say you?

HABBA: Number one, you and I both know, Judge Jeanine, that we have only one RICO situation, and that’s what’s happening with the Merrick Garland-Biden administration. Let’s be honest about it. We’ve seen the White House logs. We’ve seen the proof. The only RICO is the coordination against Donald Trump.

What they argued today was very simple. A president has a right to speak. A human being, an American, this country is based on the constitutional First Amendment rights to speech. He had that right and he did so. He has also a right as the executive branch to question and provide election integrity. God knows our country needs that right now, Jeanine. I know you know it. I know it. The American people know it.

So that’s why we’re looking at this from a serious standpoint of constitutional violations, not to mention all the, frankly, the nonsense and the noise. It might be the only time I agree with CNN is when they say

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April 2, 2024 by LAW

Mistrial motion for Trump’s New York fraud case will come ‘very soon,’ lawyer Alina Habba says

Former President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba, said Sunday that she will be filing for a mistrial “very soon” in Mr. Trump’s New York fraud case.

Mr. Trump and Ms. Habba have repeatedly said that this fraud case is politically motivated and that the people involved are biased.

“I can tell you that we will be filing papers to address all of those issues,” Ms. Habba said on Fox News Sunday, acknowledging that she also has a partial gag order against her.

Asked if she would be filing a mistrial, she replied, “very soon.”

Ms. Habba said a key problem with the case is that there is only one judge who makes the decisions.

“The problem is, with all of these things, such as filing a motion for recusal, which we have done twice, is that the judge has to be the one that decides, is he going to recuse himself? Does he feel that there was a mistrial?” she said, referring to Judge Arthur Engoron.

“It’s a bench trial. We have one judge. And it’s the same judge that issued the gag order that has to make determinations,” Ms. Habba said. “So, at this point, I don’t have any reason to believe he shouldn’t after what we have learned, if it’s true.”

Judge Engoron is presiding without a jury over the case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat. The lawsuit, which involves Mr. Trump, the Trump organization and his two adult sons, alleges that the organization misled banks, insurers and others by exaggerating the net worth to get larger loans and better insurance rates.

Last month, Judge Engoron issued a gag order to stop Mr. Trump and others involved from publically speaking about the judge or his team. The former president has been fined $10,000

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November 20, 2023 by LAW

Judge slams Legal Aid for abandoning accused

A Brantford man accused of attempted murder found an unlikely ally in an Ontario Court judge as he was sentenced instead on one count of aggravated assault.

Barry Foster Kelly, 33, admitted to getting into a fight with an acquaintance and stabbing the man repeatedly on Oct. 21, 2021.

The man was treated at a trauma centre for cuts into his chest, including one that was 10-centimetres long and entered his chest cavity.

But Justice Gethin Edward said Kelly ended up being “abused by the criminal justice system” and he laid the blame squarely at the feet of the Legal Aid Ontario.

“Early on, the accused wanted to change lawyers,” said Edward.

“These were serious charges, so it’s not unusual for an accused to realize they need more experienced counsel, yet there was nothing but radio silence to the accused from Legal Aid.”

At one point, the judge said, the case brought Kelly back to court every week for updating. Finally, a Toronto area lawyer, Darren Sederoff, stepped in and made an application to get special funding to handle Kelly’s case.

“Hope is often the only thing that keeps you going in custody, particularly with the conditions at Maplehurst,” said Edward.

“The accused lost that hope due to the way he was treated by Legal Aid and that counts for something, in my view, as far as mitigation.”

The judge added that the delay kept Kelly in pandemic conditions when COVID was more of a concern, time when he was triple-bunked and locked down for months.

Edward said Kelly has no related record, and had waived his right to a trial despite the victim being “currently out of touch with the police” and not ready to testify against him.

There was also no evidence

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March 21, 2023 by LEGAL

Suspect jailed in 2020 Orange killing wants a new lawyer, and a haircut

MILFORD — A man behind bars for more than two years in connection with a 2020 homicide at an Orange tire shop told a judge Thursday he wants a new lawyer — and an appointment with a barber.

Instead, the judge ordered 26-year-old Terrance Allen to undergo an evaluation to determine whether he’s competent to stand trial.

Allen faces charges of murder, tampering with evidence, and criminal possession of a firearm in the fatal 2020 shooting of Joshwua Figueroa27, at the Town Fair Tire on Boston Post Road in Orange.

According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Allen witnesses told him he had no choice but to shoot Figueroa after he said Figueroa pulled a gun on him.

He is being held on bonds totaling more than $1.4 million in that case and others in New Haven and Norwich courts.

Allen appeared before Judge Peter Brown in Milford Thursday in connection with Figueroa’s homicide, where his lawyer, Assistant Public Defender Kenneth Bunker, told the judge his client planned to hire a private attorney.

But Bunker said Allen has made prior plans to bring in another lawyer to the case and has been unable to. “I don’t think I should rely on that because I don’t want there to be further delays,” he said.

The lawyer said Allen won’t meet with a defense expert and asked the judge to approve a motion he made for the purpose of determining whether Allen understands the proceedings against him and can assist in his defense.

He also said Allen wanted to address the court himself, which the defendant did after a warning from the judge that anything he said could be used against him.

Allen said he was waiting for his family to hire a lawyer, but was frustrated that he was still behind

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March 1, 2023 by LAW

Pathetic Trump Lawyer Pretends It Was Her Idea To Sue Clinton

Trump lawyer Alina Habba made an appearance on Fox’s Hannity this Friday night to whine about the lawsuit that was dismissed this week by Judge Donald Middlebrooks of the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, where he issued a blistering rebuke of Trump’s waste of the court’s time.

I’m wondering how long it will take before all of Trump’s lawyers end up needing lawyers of their own after the revelations about the handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and God know what else they’ve aided and abetted with that we may not even know about yet.

Here’s more trump-lawyer-mopes-after-suit-tossed-its-a-sad-day”from the Daily Beast with Habba pathetically taking the blame for filing the suit against Clinton in the first place and pretending it was all her idea instead of Trump’s:

Judge Donald Middlebrooks wrote that his court “is not the appropriate forum” for Trump to “flaunt a two-hundred-page political manifesto.” Habba’s response, as told to Sean Hannity: “Well what is the proper place for him?” Habba later said she might appeal the decision, and also that Trump had told her that the case would ultimately not be a winner and she should just drop it. “I said no. We have to fight. It’s not right what happened. And you know, he was right. It’s a sad day for me personally because I fought him on it and should have listened, but I don’t want to lose hope in our system, I don’t.”

Never mind all the hundreds or more of tweets or endless rants at his rallies about how Clinton was going to jail any day now, we’re supposed to believe this was all this lawyer’s idea over the objection of Trump. Jebus these people know their followers are idiots.

Politics Girl has some thoughts on the

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September 13, 2022 by LAW

Florida Judge declares second trial due to lawyer’s group text

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A prosecutor in a murder case complained about a judge’s ruling in a group text message that included the judge, resulting in a second mistrial for a man charged with killing his girlfriend’s young son. Now the defense wants the case dismissed altogether.

Broward County Judge Peter Holden refused to allow a 911 call as evidence against Corey Gorden, who is accused of killing the 3-year-old in 2015 and returning him in his car seat to his mother as if nothing had happened.

Assistant State Attorney Katya Palmiotto then sent a text complaining about the ruling to a group of current and former homicide prosecutors, the South Florida SunSentinel reported.

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“Holden just sustained their objection and wouldn’t let us put the 911 call in as hearsay,” she wrote.

A Lawyer's group text was the cause of a second Florida murder case mistrial.

A Lawyer’s group text was the cause of a second Florida murder case mistrial.

As a former homicide prosecutor who was appointed to the bench in 2018, the judge remained in the group chat. And lawyers are prohibited in criminal cases from talking with the judge if the defendant’s lawyers are not present.

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Defense lawyer Michael Gottlieb filed for mistrial on Wednesday, saying in a summary that the 15-year veteran prosecutor had been overheard saying she messed up “real bad.”

“The judge was visibly upset and appeared angry,” Gottlieb wrote.

Holden grilled the prosecutor about the text message before declaring a mistrial.

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In May, another judge declared a mistrial when prosecutors asked a witness about Gorden’s refusal to give a statement. Criminal trial judges are not permitted to consider the defendants

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August 20, 2022 by LAW

Alex Jones’ CT attorney facing punishment in Sandy Hook trial

NEWTOWN — A judge will decide Wednesday whether to judge-gravely-concerned-Alex-Jones-17365178.php”punish one of Connecticut’s highest-profile defense attorneys over allegations that he shared with other lawyers protected medical records of grieving Sandy Hook families who won a defamation case against Alex Jones.

Norm Pattis, a New Haven attorney who is running Jones’ defense in Connecticut, got into trouble this month when state Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis learned about the possible confidentiality breach from news reports out of the explosive second week of Jones’ trial in Texas, where a jury ordered Jones to pay two Sandy Hook parents $49 million in defamation damages.

Pattis, who says he’s done nothing to deserve discipline or sanctions by sharing pretrial information with Jones’ lead attorney in Texas, argued in court papers, “any misconduct is vehemently denied here as Mr. Pattis’ conduct fell directly within the permissible conduct under a careful reading of the confidentiality order.”

Specifically, Pattis wanted Bellis to dismiss her inquiry because Jones’ parent company has filed for bankruptcy protection and therefore has stalled a Sept. 6 trial in Waterbury to see how much Jones must pay an FBI agent and eight Sandy Hook families he defamed.

No, Bellis responded on Monday.

“While (this is) … presently pending in the bankruptcy courts, this disciplinary matter is directed to (lawyers) and not the parties, such that the court has jurisdiction to address the disciplinary issues,” Bellis ruled.

The Wednesday showdown between Bellis and Pattis is the latest drama in a story that captured nationwide headlines early this month, when Jones as the face of American conspiracy culture and two parents of a slain Sandy Hook boy as the face of American families of loss confronted each other face to face for the first time in a Texas courtroom.

“Do you think I’m

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August 19, 2022 by ATTORNEY
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