Trump legal team could gain 'very significant advantage' in hush-money case, Jonathan Turley says
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Fox News contributor says one strategy could politically and legally help the defense, even if there may be "personal resistance" from Trump in the NYC case.
JONATHAN TURLEY: The second issue involves a fairly standard motion that occurs when you believe that the jury may not agree that the big ticket item of a charge, the felonies, is proven, and you want the court to give an instruction saying you can always convict on a lesser included offense – in this case a misdemeanor. Now, sometimes the defense doesn't want to do that. Sometimes they just want to leave the jury with the cliff option, thinking that they don't want to go over the cliff so they'll go ahead and acquit. But many times, this works in favor of the defense. For Trump, there could be personal resistance to even suggesting a possible misdemeanor conviction, but politically and legally, it would be a very significant advantage for him. This article was written by Fox News staff.
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