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Trump’s New Lawyer In E. Jean Carroll Case Is An… Odd Choice

  • August 6, 2024
It would appear that Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba is out of E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against the former president … sort of. As with every other procedural aspect of this case, it’s substantially factual, and seems all but guaranteed to piss off Judge Lewis Kaplan. And he was already pretty pissed! To recap: In 2019, advice columnist E. Jean Carroll alleged that Trump raped her in a New York department store decades earlier. Trump immediately branded Carroll a liar and implied she was too ugly to rape — an allegation slightly undercut when he examined a picture of…
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Trump lawyer recuses himself from classified documents case: report

  • May 21, 2023
Evan Corcoran, a key member of former President Trump’s legal team, has recused himself from the investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents after he was questioned by a grand jury last month, according to The Washington Post. Trump is under investigation by Special Counsel Jack Smith over allegations that he intentionally mishandled classified documents during and after he left office, including storing documents at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida and hiding them from federal investigators. Corcoran will still represent Trump in other cases, including Smith’s investigation into the former president’s role in the Jan. 6 insurrections. He spoke to…
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Appeals court denies Elizabeth Holmes’ request to stay out of prison

  • May 17, 2023
Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the collapsed Silicon Valley blood-testing startup Theranos, has lost a bid to remain out of prison while she appeals to multiple convictions of defrauding the company’s investors. On Tuesday, a three-judge panel for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco rejected a motion from Holmes’ lawyers asking that the embattled entrepreneur and mother of two be spared from a lower court’s order also denying her request to remain free on bail , pending an appeal of her case. A date for Holmes to report to prison was not included in the order. “Appellant’s motion…
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Lawyers say accused killer’s decision to represent himself at Sask. trial could be a big mistake

  • March 16, 2023
The murder trial of Greg Fertuck has been full of surprising twists, but the most recent — and perhaps the most unexpected — came from Fertuck himself. He decided to represent himself for the remainder of the trial. “I didn’t kill nobody, and all I’m gonna do is tell the truth. I’m an innocent victim. I haven’t killed nobody and I can prove it in court myself,” Fertuck told CBC during a phone interview . “I don’t need a shady lawyer to take my money.” The stakes couldn’t be higher for Fertuck. He’s charged with first-degree murder, accused of killing…