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In reply to the discussion: Cohen cross examination: " Two jurors looked at each other and grinned." [View all]
TomSlick
(12,847 posts)44. They'll be fine.
Win or lose, they will be darlings of the GOP. They will have their choice of clients.
Lawyers often finding themselves representing clients they don't like. In the words of Professor Prosser:
Your lawyer in practice spends a considerable part of his life in doing distasteful things for disagreeable people who must be satisfied against an impossible time limit in which are hourly interruptions from other disagreeable people who want to derail the train; and for his blood, sweat, and tears, he receives in the end a few unkind words to the effect that it might have been done better, and a protest at the size of the fee.
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Cohen cross examination: " Two jurors looked at each other and grinned." [View all]
emulatorloo
May 2024
OP
Todd Blanche really really really would rather be at the bottom of ocean right now
Traurigkeit
May 2024
#1
Professor William Prosser is THE expert in tort law in the US fifty-odd years after his death.
TomSlick
May 2024
#46
As a rule, books in a law office are all out of date and just there for looks.
TomSlick
May 2024
#48
Preferably one that's still actually standing, so he can hit the water from the maximum altitude. 😜
ShazzieB
May 2024
#36
I have no way of knowing but if I were to hazard a guess, they were grinning because they agreed with
hlthe2b
May 2024
#2
Agreed. Cohen's description fits Blanche perfectly. Gonna be an interesting cross examination.
emulatorloo
May 2024
#6
Per Politico, Merchan called the lawyers to a sidebar and struck Blanche's question from the record.
ancianita
May 2024
#23
Sounds to me that Cohen was telling the truth twice. Once when he said it and the second when he said it sounded like
dem4decades
May 2024
#5
Does the shoe fit, Blanche, if, so, maybe you are a crying little shit ?
republianmushroom
May 2024
#14
Appellate Division of NYS judges will have a laugher when they read through this
Traurigkeit
May 2024
#24
Blanche was actually objecting to the word "little" which he considered to be sexist.
Ping Tung
May 2024
#22
While shut-eyed Trump defies the process, Todd Blanche talks to Cohen like a prosecutor. Because that's his goal.
ancianita
May 2024
#27
Agree. He's prosecuting Cohen to distract from the fact of the smoking gun document. It won't work
ancianita
May 2024
#32
He's the one who grimaces while standing behind Trump as he rages outside the courtroom *
Oopsie Daisy
May 2024
#33