Donald Trump-appointed prosecutor Lindsey Halligan tried to fix a big court “screw up” but ended up making things much worse, according to a legal analyst.
Halligan’s team recently admitted to a grand jury error in the criminal case of Trump foe James Comey, only to later walk back that admission in a second filing that suggested the grand jury was properly made aware of the operative indictment in the case. That second filing will actually “hang” the prosecutors, according to Michael Popok, a national trial lawyer and strategist, and host of the Legal AF podcast.
“It didn’t help matters. It actually made it worse,” he said. “This is the new filing that they made after they screwed up in court and had their lawyer admit to the judge that the grand jury never saw the actual document called the second indictment, with just two counts in it… no, the seven minutes of transcript don’t help you; they actually hang you.”
That’s because, according to the expert, the prosecutors provided selected pages from the grand jury transcript, which now opens the rest of that top be used against them by Comey’s team.
According to the description for the podcast episode, “Trump’s DOJ and Lindsey Halligan just screwed up again in the Former FBI Director James Comey case, filing a grand jury transcript that hurts not helps their effort to try to save the indictment, and by doing so waiving any argument that the defense shouldn’t be given a complete set of the grand jury records. Popok explains how this latest grand jury filing shows that not only is Halligan hopelessly confused including at the last hearing, but that she is in big trouble with the judge deciding whether she should be fired as US Attorney, too.”
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