Former President Donald Trump is expected to ask the U. S. Supreme Court to overturn his secret conviction, his former lawyer said.
John Eastman, who has been indicted in Georgia and Arizona for allegedly attempting to illegally interfere in the final results of the 2020 election, told host Emerald Robinson on conservative online news site Frank Speech on Monday that legal action is needed before Trump supporters can take their own hands into their own hands.
“I urge Trump’s legal team to file a habeas corpus petition with the U. S. Supreme Court,” he said. “It’s a rare decision, but I think it needs to be made before other people start looking for cures. “
Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has been tried in New York on 34 counts of falsifying records of secret invoices made to adult film actor Stormy Daniels. On May 30, a jury found him guilty of all 34 counts.
Eastman said Trump got a fair trial.
“Not only am I concerned about this judicial lynching in New York, but I am also deeply involved when legal remedies opposed to governmental tyranny are removed. I’m very involved with what other people do to seek a cure for themselves,” Eastman said.
Newsweek sought email comment from Trump’s lawyer on Tuesday.
Eastman said Trump is a victim of the left’s “legal war” and that the trial “is full of contradictions and violations of due process. “
He said he hoped the Supreme Court would take up the case and realize the danger posed by the conviction.
Greg Germain, a law professor at Syracuse University in New York, told Newsweek that he expects a lot of habeas corpus and demanding situations if Trump is jailed.
“If the ruling sentences Trump to jail Trump, it would be World War III in the justice system,” he said. “I would expect Trump to file emergency appeals with the Appellate Division seeking a pending appeal and a habeas corpus action. in federal court and legislative requests for Supreme Court intervention. I believe that the Appellate Division would temporarily grant a stay pending the appeal.
“And it would be a constitutional crisis in the middle of an election for a state court to sentence a prominent presidential candidate to a criminal charge for a hard-to-understand background violation. I don’t think that’s going to happen. The trial will not make him convict Trump of a criminal offense or impose a short criminal sentence on him but grant him a remainder of the sentence pending appeal. “
According to the FindLaw, “habeas corpus offers a different avenue for challenging the prison sentence. “In rarer cases, it can be used among non-inmates who are challenging their conviction.
On May 17, Eastman pleaded guilty in Phoenix to unlawful interference in the recount of the 2020 Arizona presidential election.
He also indicted in Georgia, along with Trump and 17 others, similar charges of interfering in the 2020 election. He and Trump have pleaded not guilty to the charges against Georgia.
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