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Trump's historic hush-money trial to begin in New York - BBC News | Trump's historic hush-money trial to begin in New York - BBC News |
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Nada Tawfik | |
Reporting from New York | |
The stakes are incredibly high for Manhattan’s District Attorney Alvin Bragg as he begins his historic prosecution of a former president today. | |
Not least because legal experts have long been debating how strong the case really is and whether he should have brought the case against Donald Trump at all. Even a former prosecutor in Bragg's own office has weighed in. | |
Its success or failure seemingly hinges on an untested legal theory – whether a state prosecutor can invoke a federal crime that was never proven. | |
In other words: can Bragg argue that Trump falsified business records to conceal federal election law violations for which he was never charged? | |
The judge has so far accepted the District Attorney’s position that he can. | |
But former federal prosecutor Shane Stansbury says if Trump does end up getting convicted and he then appeals that conviction, federal courts and even the US Supreme Court could weigh in on the issue. | |
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