Top law professor at Harvard says Trump indictment 'prosecutorial abuse'

 PJ Media:

Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz says the indictment of Donald Trump is the “worst case of prosecutorial abuse I have ever seen.” And he’s not the only one calling out this raw exercise of political power over the rule of law. Thursday night, Trump’s attorney echoed that sentiment, declaring, “today the rule of law in the United States of America died.”

Trump was charged in a sealed indictment handed up on Thursday that is believed to concern a non-disclosure agreement signed by porn actress Stormy Daniels, which the legacy media calls “hush money.” Daniels was paid $130,000 by Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen. Both Cohen and Daniels have declared that Trump didn’t make the payment himself and that there was no personal relationship in 2006 between Trump and the x-rated porn actress. Daniels has since reneged on her statement and, of course, the NDA.

Dershowitz said on the Sean Hannity program on Fox News that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is playing with fire.

[W]hen you’re a democratic elected prosecutor who ran on the campaign pledge of getting Trump and you’re going to indict, forget about the former president, the man who may become the future president if he beats the incumbent who is the head of your political party. Posecutor, you’d better have the strongest case imaginable, not a case that depends on stitching together two inapplicable statutes and using Michael Cohen.

Dershowitz has often said that a “first-year law student could win this case.”

The Harvard Law School professor emeritus told The Epoch Times, “In 60 years of practice, this is the worst case of prosecutorial abuse I have ever seen.” He told the paper the charges, declined by Bragg’s predecessor as well as the DOJ and FEC, are “very dangerous—it means that district attorneys can indict their own political enemies.” And then he said what many people in America know only too well after the January 6, 2021, riots.”It really endangers the rule of law for all Americans,” he warned. “Today, it’s Trump; tomorrow, it’s a Democrat. The day after tomorrow, it’s your uncle Charlie, or your niece, or your nephew.”

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“The very fact that the indictment came down when he was out of state shows that they could have indicted him any day in the last seven years but they deliberately violated the statute of limitations because no other previous prosecutor would go after him,” Dershowitz said.

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Bragg's case makes no sense to a law professor or to most lawyers.  It is looking like a stunt that will backfire on the DA. 

See, also:

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And:

 Pence Calls Trump’s ‘Unprecedented Indictment’ an ‘Outrage’

And:

 There’s Something Suspicious About Trump’s Indictment