Will Trump go to jail in Stormy Daniels case? There are little hopes of his acquittal
It is going to be very difficult for Donald Trump to win the Stormy Daniels case over money, a legal expert has claimed. Greg Germain, a law professor at Syracuse University in New York, responded Former President’s trial begins in Manhattan,
“The district attorney has it much easier than Trump. Trump will have difficulty finding Manhattan jurors likely to side with himBecause Manhattan voters are overwhelmingly Democratic and overwhelmingly liberal,” Germain told Newsweek.
“Trump’s base is suburban and rural. He generally performs poorly in big cities, and Manhattan is the biggest,” Germain said. he added this Manhattan is one of the most liberal urban districts in the United States.
Jury selection will take place this Monday Maintain silence on Trump’s issue. More than 500 New Yorkers are expected to fill out questionnaires about their political beliefs before 12 members, including six alternate jurors, are selected. Trump, a potential 2024 Republican presidential candidate, has become the first former president in US history to stand trial in a criminal case.
The prosecution seeks to demonstrate that ahead of the 2016 presidential elections, Trump paid off two women (adult film star Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal) So that they cannot expose her alleged romance with him. He is also accused of paying a former Trump Tower concierge who claimed to know that Trump allegedly fathered a child with another woman. Trump has denied all the allegations and said he is the target of a political witch hunt.
Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance also said it was Trump’s full acquittal was unlikely. On Monday, on his legal blog Civil Discourse, he said that only prosecutorial error could lead to Trump’s full acquittal.
“It is highly unlikely that Trump will be fully acquitted. This would require all jurors to find him not guilty., which is highly unlikely unless there is an unexpected flaw in the prosecution’s evidence. Vance wrote, “Trump’s lawyers are more likely to seek a reluctant jury should they pass impeachment.”
Vance explained that a holdout juror is “a person who The defense believes that he will be on their side and will be able to hold his ground And refusing to vote to convict on at least a felony count, even if all other jurors are convinced that is the appropriate outcome.”