288
Prosecutors: Trump Mar-a-Lago security aide flipped after changing lawyers
(www.politico.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
288 points (99.0% liked)
United States | News & Politics
7120 readers
554 users here now
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
So let me get this straight, the lawyer Trump gave him turned out to only be looking out for Trump? And he turned state's witness when he got a real lawyer and figured out how effed he was? Wow, what a crazy world.
What's even better is that the same lawyer, Stanley Woodward, is also representing another key witness and Trump lackey Walt Nauta. Which could mean that if Taveras testifies that Woodward mislead or coerced him into falsifying parts of his testimony in order to protect Trump, it could also call into question the legitimacy of Nauta's testimony. It's bad news for Trump on multiple levels.
Ohhhhh that's why Jack Smith was making it so very very clear to Nauta that he has a right to an independent attorney.
To prevent appeals based on inadequate legal representation. There's some procedure to make sure the defendant knows about his attorney's potential conflicts of interest and allow him to waive the right to such an appeal if he wants to keep that attorney.