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Steve Bannon's ‘Misdemeanor From Hell’ Trial

Bloomberg Law

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What's the Point of Going to Trial if There Are No Defences?

He doesn't have any valid defenses to this. He could try for nullification just on the fact that maybe you went up with some jurors who liked trump and like bannon, and maybe you kind of appeal to them,. That's really more of a legal argument. The court will have to be careful in the way that it tries to kind of cabin those arguments and not let go too far with them. What would an argument for jury nullification look like? There's a few things. I mean, why make a federal case of this? Kind of just play to the whole. No harm, no foul.

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