Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 3457531" data-attributes="member: 48469">Nah. Trump and co. first. &nbsp;“this raid involved not only the U.S. attorney’s office, but also a federal judge or magistrate judge signing off on the search warrant on the president’s lawyer after finding probable cause of criminal acts. That’s a big deal. A magistrate is not a federal judge, but they are appointed by federal judges, and they are <a href="https://www.popehat.com/2018/04/09/the-search-of-trump-lawyer-michael-cohens-office-what-we-can-infer-immediately/" target="_blank">not going to mess around in such a high-profile case</a>. The prosecutors had to show not only probable cause of a crime, but they probably also had to persuade the magistrate that attorney-client privilege did not protect against the raid. Prosecutors likely had to convince the magistrate that at least some of the evidence would fit the <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/289/1/case.html" target="_blank">crime-fraud exception to the privilege</a>, and that bar is usually set very high”<a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/why-robert-mueller-handed-off-the-michael-cohen-raid.html" target="_blank">Why Robert Mueller Handed Off the Michael Cohen Raid</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 3457531, member: 48469"] Nah. Trump and co. first. “this raid involved not only the U.S. attorney’s office, but also a federal judge or magistrate judge signing off on the search warrant on the president’s lawyer after finding probable cause of criminal acts. That’s a big deal. A magistrate is not a federal judge, but they are appointed by federal judges, and they are [URL='https://www.popehat.com/2018/04/09/the-search-of-trump-lawyer-michael-cohens-office-what-we-can-infer-immediately/']not going to mess around in such a high-profile case[/URL]. The prosecutors had to show not only probable cause of a crime, but they probably also had to persuade the magistrate that attorney-client privilege did not protect against the raid. Prosecutors likely had to convince the magistrate that at least some of the evidence would fit the [URL='https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/289/1/case.html']crime-fraud exception to the privilege[/URL], and that bar is usually set very high” [URL="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/why-robert-mueller-handed-off-the-michael-cohen-raid.html"]Why Robert Mueller Handed Off the Michael Cohen Raid[/URL] [/QUOTE]

Verification