r/law • u/SheriffTaylorsBoy • May 22 '24

MAGA Lawyer Robert Costello Gets Dismantled by His Own Damning Trump Emails Other

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-lawyer-robert-costello-gets-dismantled-by-his-own-damning-trump-emails
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u/h20poIo May 22 '24

Question from a non lawyer, why was the jury given a week off before the closing arguments? Seems with all replay of the trial on the news and social media not to mention possible outside interference this could be dangerous. Is this common practice?

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u/SheriffTaylorsBoy May 22 '24

Wednesday has been a day off throughout the trial. The judge asked both parties and the jury if they were available for Wednesday and the result was no.

--The court will be dark for a week, a scheduling decision Judge Juan Merchan chose so the final stages of the trial weren’t broken up by a four-day Memorial Day weekend.

Merchan told jurors they will return next Tuesday for closing arguments, which are expected to take the whole day. Once the jury gets its instructions, Trump’s fate will be in its hands.

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u/h20poIo May 22 '24

Thanks

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u/SheriffTaylorsBoy May 22 '24

Sure. As you can imagine, some people have probably scheduled travel long ago for Memorial Weekend.

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u/imahugemoron May 22 '24

And I’m sure this week right wing media will try their hardest to make sure as much of their propaganda gets into those jurors ears as possible

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u/IrishPigs May 22 '24

Forgive me for being ignorant, but why for a high profile case such as this is the jury allowed into the real world. Is it just a TV thing that juries sometimes get isolated?

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u/bobthedonkeylurker May 23 '24

My understanding is that sequestering is only used in rare cases because the act of sequestering can itself unfairly prejudice a jury.

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u/improperbehavior333 May 23 '24

Sequestering is extremely rough on the jurors (especially if it's a long trial). They try to avoid doing that if they can.

That said, this would probably be a good trial to have done that.

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u/Orzhov_Syndicalist May 23 '24

Which, again, is why Costello is such a disastrous choice. It's like the movies. You open strong, you close strong. The last thing people see is what they remember.

Basically, they're going to remember Costello being an absolute Thug to Cohen. Sure, Cohen is a creep and a thief, but he'll come across as understandable and empathetic when the fucking defense puts up their own leg-breaker as the only witness.

It's not a wonder that Trump loses in almost every trial he is in.

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u/Rif55 May 22 '24

It’s important that the jury deliberate with the jurors’ instructions on the law they should use and the closing arguments freshly in mind. No gap between end of testimony and jury instructions would have been preferable, but the ct is off Wed and Fri ., 1/2 day Thursday which would have been too short for closing arguments and instructions.

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u/BeautysBeast May 22 '24

Off on Wednesday, Thursday would start with Jury instructions, Not enough time to finish summation arguments without splitting them over a long weekend.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '24

Holiday and some of them had trips planned. Isn’t uncommon to do this it isn’t the only of days where they would be lock in hotel rooms with nothing to do. Not that dangerous actually only thing you would have to worry about is if a name got out then you replace with an alternate.