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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
As I understand it, those 10 charges being declared a mistrial means that the jury couldn't reach consensus and thus the prosecution will have to retry those 10 charges with a new jury.
The 8 charges Manafort was declared guilty on, however, are set in stone and will not be a part of any retrial. He can always appeal, of course.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.If there's nobody around to carry out the investigation, yes.
"The devil's got all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns. Fuck that." - Liam Gallagher8 felonies sounds like the kind of thing that you gets some hard time. Paul Manafort is 69, so if the judge goes for the higher end and makes some/all of the sentences consecutive, he could easily end up dying in prison.
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Barring America being totally occupied or human civilization imploding as we know it, no. Spoiler alert: neither of those are very likely.
Edited by Rationalinsanity on Aug 21st 2018 at 6:22:56 AM
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
x6 From what I've read, he can get up to 80 years for all the cases he's been found Guilty of.
Still, even with those mistrials, today's been a good day for Justice; especially with Cohen flipping and potentially (finally) revealing a serious-enough crime against Trump.
Edited by DingoWalley1 on Aug 21st 2018 at 5:17:53 AM
Reminder that the Trump administration is set to put more tariffs on Chinese goods this week. This day of bad news for him could pressure him to go to outright bans on goods.
"The devil's got all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns. Fuck that." - Liam GallagherIt's worth noting that Trump may not want to pardon Manafort, if he's found guilty of anything related to Trump.
To accept a pardon, you must accept guilt for the crime you are being pardoned of. That admittance of guilt could bite Trump in return.
Edit: Here's the source for my claim: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/236/79/
Edited by bitemytail on Aug 21st 2018 at 2:42:45 AM
X3 That’s the Trump base, there’s a chunk of his electorate who are there for much more changeable reasons.
Yeah while he may try it seems that the pentagon has perfected the art of “yes sir, very good sir, we just need that in triplicate with an additional signature from the secretary of defence and you to provide an in person briefing to the joint chiefs in two weeks to confirm all this”
Edited by Silasw on Aug 21st 2018 at 9:45:02 AM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranTrump can, according to CNN none of the crimes he got convicted on fall under the state based category. And since none of the crimes he got tried or convicted on have anything to do with Trump, there is no other reason which might stay his hand either. Which is why I don't think that this is over.
Thus said, this was only the first trial. There is another one awaiting him.
Edited by Swanpride on Aug 21st 2018 at 2:52:34 AM
Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did
Old news but Michael Moore, America's version of Chopper Reid in being a bullshit artist extraordinaire, is making a new film called, 11/9 on the 2016 Presidential election. However looking at the trailer this was worth noting.

This proves beyond all doubt to me that some of the Trump fanatics, they will try and cause a war, there will be gun violence and if only in their eyes they are using this to hold America hostage, keep Trump as president or they will start gunning people down.
Now I don't want the police to go all Daniel Shaver or unarmed black man on these people but I sincerely hope some measure of gun control is exercised on whoever is expressing these thoughts.
Currently reading up My Rule Fu Is Stronger than YoursThis is technically true but practically irrelevant, if such hard proof were revealed before the midterms then it would vastly decrease the chances of Republicans holding onto their majorities and if it's revealed after the midterms then there is no guarantee (and quite a bit suggesting otherwise) that their majorities will still exist.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Aug 21st 2018 at 6:12:52 AM
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang

An "unnamed candidate" you say? I knew Gary Johnson couldn't be trusted!
Edited by Rationalinsanity on Aug 21st 2018 at 6:08:00 AM
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.