Alan Dershowitz, a renowned legal expert, has issued a challenge to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, asking him to find “even one instance” in which someone was prosecuted on the same allegations as former President Donald Trump.
Alan Dershowitz, a well-known attorney, recently made a bold statement on “Forbes Newsroom” regarding the actions of New York Attorney General Letitia James. Dershowitz said that James should be barred for promising to prosecute former President Donald Trump when he was seeking for office. The remarks of the legal expert have generated a contentious discussion over the moral obligations of lawyers in the political sphere.
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“I don’t think an indictment can actually come forward now after the comments made by [Robert] Costello,” the attorney said. Dershowitz added that Bragg “has proved that the main witness is going to be a perjuring liar on the witness stand, and that puts the district attorney in a terrible position.”
“If he uses Cohen as a witness, he could actually lose his bar license. It’s unethical to put a witness on the stand who you know is lying, and he has to know that Cohen will be lying. Or he tries the case without Cohen, which would be very difficult, or he does the right thing: he drops the case,” he said.
Legal authority Alan Dershowitz has highlighted a potential repercussion for attorney Michael Bragg in the event that he is found guilty of informing the media of Trump’s indictment. Dershowitz claims that Bragg might receive a severe sentence of up to five years in prison for breaking the rules governing divulging grand jury testimony in New York. It’s a serious crime that falls under the classification of a Class E felony and has a potential prison sentence of one to five years.
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Regarding the new indictment leak, renowned attorney Dershowitz made a strong comment in an opinion piece. He asserts that the only person genuinely guilty of a felony is the one who leaked the sealed indictment. This contentious viewpoint raises the stakes of this already intriguing case.
“It is likely that a serious felony has been committed right under District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s nose and he is not investigating it. Under New York law, it is a felony to leak confidential grand jury information, such as whether the jurors voted to indict. The protection of secrecy is as applicable to President Trump as it is to anyone else,” In an opinion piece for The New York Sun, Dershowitz stated.
“We know that the information was disclosed while the indictment itself remains sealed and before any official announcement was made or charges brought. It is unlikely that the leak came from the Trump team, which seemed genuinely surprised,” Dershowitz said.
“The most likely, though uncertain, scenario is that a person in Mr. Bragg’s office or a grand juror unlawfully leaked the sealed information. That would be a class E felony, subject to imprisonment. It is possible of course that an investigation is underway, but it seems more likely that Mr. Bragg is too busy making up a crime against the man he promised in his campaign to get than investigating a real crime that took place on his watch,” Dershowitz added.
Dershowitz claims that if Trump revealed the rationale for the payment, the non-disclosure agreement he had with adult film star Stormy Daniels would no longer be valid. This calls into doubt the agreement’s effectiveness and importance.
“Why would Mr. Trump pay the money in the first place if he had to publicly disclose the embarrassing reason? Furthermore, no one in history has ever been indicted for listing ‘legal expenses’ for setting a potentially embarrassing payment of hush money,” he said.
“Thus, even the misdemeanor allegation involving false entries is unprecedented and represents selective prosecution. It is also almost certainly barred by the two-year statute of limitations. In order to elevate this bookkeeping case into a felony, Mr. Bragg must also prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the reason Trump made the false entry — if he himself did it — was solely as a campaign contribution to help him win his election,” he said.
“If somebody on the grand jury, prosecutor or grand juror, leaked the fact that there was a vote to indict, that is a one – five-year class E felony under New York,” Dershowitz said. “Bragg now has a prima facia case that a crime has been committed right in his building, but as far as I know he’s not investigating it.”
