“There is reasonable doubt all over this case,” says attorney Randy Zelin.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecuting team failed to prove former President Donald Trump’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, a defense attorney told CNN, arguing a conviction may be unlikely.
Speaking to “CNN News Central” host Kate Bolduon, attorney Randy Zelin pointed out Bragg’s team did not definitively make the case Trump had falsified business records to porn star Stormy Daniels, leaving “reasonable doubt all over.”
“They fell way short because let’s start with reasonable doubt,” Zelin told Bolduan.
“What is reasonable doubt? And it’s not simply a doubt based upon reason. Any time a human being needs to make an important decision in life, if you have enough information, for example, doctor says you need open heart surgery. Doc, go ahead and schedule. I don’t have a reasonable doubt. Conversely, if I say I appreciate it, but I need a second opinion, I need more information. That is having a reasonable doubt.”
“There is reasonable doubt all over this case,” he added.
“Where is Keith Schiller, where is Allen Weisselberg? How did Michael Cohen get away with stealing $30,000? Hold a pity party for him, made $4 million on this, thought he‘d be chief of staff. He’s a fixer. If the plumber comes to my house to fix my leak, I could be home. That doesn’t mean I know how he‘s doing it and what it’s taking to be fixed. Stormy Daniels, let‘s hold a pity party for her.”
Zelin went on to point out the testimonies of the prosecution’s star witnesses, Daniels and former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, weren’t particularly helpful to Bragg’s case.
“Why do we need to know whether or not the former president wore a condom or not?” Zelin asked, referring to Daniels’ raunchy testimony. “It’s simply about, did the former president know that books, his records, false entries for legal fees, Michael Cohen was his lawyer, did he intend to cover up the election or to protect his family? It’s [reasonable doubt] everywhere. Everywhere!”
The Daily Caller News Foundation highlighted former DOJ spokesman-turned-MSNBC legal analyst Anthony Coley remarked last week that a Trump acquittal could come down to the two “hypertechnical” lawyers in the jury pool.
“I think what I would worry about if I’m on the prosecution case, and I say this tongue in cheek, because I ran communications at arguably the largest law firm in the world, the U.S. Justice Department, I do worry that there are lawyers on this jury, not one but two lawyers,” Coley said. “And by my own experience, lawyers can sometimes be overly analytical. They can be hyper technical. I worry that the nonlawyers on this jury may rely on the lawyers who, quite frankly, don’t have expertise in this area of the law.”
