Attorney for crack dealer tries the President Trump defense: Don't trust snitches
Source: New York Daily News
By STEPHEN REX BROWN| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS | AUG 28, 2018 | 12:40 PM
An attorney for a crack dealer began to argue in closing statements last week that a cooperating witness can’t be trusted — but a judge stopped him before he could cite a “presidential tweet.”
The hint of a new legal trend came Thursday in closing remarks by Kafahni Nkrumah, who was representing Jamal (Mally) Russell.
“You know what’s funny? Yesterday Manafort was convicted,” Nkrumah said, alluding to the trial of Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort. The Manafort trial featured testimony from a cooperating witness. Nkrumah was immediately stopped due to an objection from the government.
Out of earshot of the jury, Nkrumah explained that he planned to cite Trump’s remark that “It’s called flipping and it almost ought to be illegal.”
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