It is unusual for prosecutors to meet with criminal accused who may have valuable information to trade in useful treatment. But we can be witnessed one of the unfamiliar cases of the phenomenon that reveals real -time, and Deputy Prosecutor General Todd Blanche said Tuesday that he was going to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell.
Blanche, one of the personal lawyers of President Donald Trump, who now heads the Department of Justice, wrote X:
Maxwell’s lawyer Davis Oskaras Markus replied X:
To try to understand what’s going on, let’s repeat how we got here, and then see where we can be directed.
Maxwell is in prison after the jury in 2021. Admitted his guilt for conspiracy with Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused minors. She and Epstein were accused of the first Trump administration. Currently, Maxwell has a release date in 2037, and she has a pending petition with the Supreme Court to try to annul its verdict. The Department of Justice resisted her petition only last week, and we do not yet know whether the Supreme Court will accept her appeal; We can hear about this in the fall from the trial.
Meanwhile, Trump faced the intense issues of some of his supporters who questioned his administration’s commitment to the commitment of his administration and release the full scope of information related to Epstein, related to Trump’s personal relationships with the shameful financier. Epstein died detained in 2019, waiting for the court for what a medical expert considers suicide.
With that short foundation in mind, let’s examine the incentives.
At risk, Maxwell, 63, probably wants to avoid the next decade prison. Blanche probably wants to use the tools of the justice system to help the short politically, such as the DOJ tried to make an Eric Adams case.
If these are incentives, then the question arises: How do Maxwell and Blanche work together to help Trump?
One prospectus can “clean” the president in some way, even if he was not accused of any crime, so it is unclear what form will be such a permit. However, in the light of context and incentive, whatever it is convincing or unconvincing, would it be the job that Blanche could intend to do? Will Trump sell grace just because of that?
If not, it raises the question of whether Maxwell could help the other person or persons who have not yet been accused. This is a typical thing the defendant would help the prosecutor. Of course, this raises typical problems with coworkers and problems with their reliability, but there are steroids. This is because any information she shares Potential imprisonment as often do coworkers before They are convicted, but although it is actively imprisoned and has all the incentives to leave this situation as soon as possible and do so to be pleased with the president.
Nonetheless, it is difficult to analyze the value of possible Maxwell cooperation in one way or another without knowing what it will share. In any cooperation situation, the title of the game is confirmation. Therefore, looking at this situation from the prosecutor’s perspective, which should make a case based on Maxwell’s possible cooperation, it should not only want to take some other persons or individuals, but also be able to help prove it. Ideally, it would be with documentary or other objective evidence in the hypothetical case where the defense would have a lot of space for a cross -examination, depending on how this cooperation would have arisen.
In this respect, Blanche and Trump DOJ may have taken a new phase of this trip, which is difficult to successfully carry out, especially if they intend to rely on third parties (such as judges and jurors), not just a intimidation, which has a short control.
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This article was originally published in msnbc.com