I went to law school, finished and then realized it was not on brand for me to be a lawyer, and so im now a middle aged dj who argues with houseplants and some people on twitter sometimes - but that aside, I sort of recall the reason for each check trump cut as qualifying a separate charge, like or in answering the question as to why he …
I went to law school, finished and then realized it was not on brand for me to be a lawyer, and so im now a middle aged dj who argues with houseplants and some people on twitter sometimes - but that aside, I sort of recall the reason for each check trump cut as qualifying a separate charge, like or in answering the question as to why he couldn’t have just written a personal check (which George got perfect I think, this is just my added thought bubble to the implication that the issue is about proper file management and recording) - I sort of remember being told that an additional charge for each infraction, like the charge per check could be best understood as representing a moment of time in which the defendant has a choice and doesn’t need to continue to crime, like so each time he cuts a check, like if he cut MC Cheques for $1, like 150k different checks, that would necessarily mean that he had 150k moments to pause and not write the check but did so despite it being a crime. Like I know it’s more in the context of mens rea and “heat of the moment” type issues, like in the “did the defendant have a period to cool down after catching his wife with another man before he shot that man” - but the same sort of cool down period or period in which to reflect on the matter and where he has the window of time to have made a choice to either crime or not, that’s why each check and each misfiled financial document represents a separate count; he didn’t just do a crime one time, he had time to reconsider the way he was handling it and chose not to again and again. I’m sure the prosecutor will highlight that, but yeah, it helps to think of the defendant as walking down a crime path and considering the options they had to not crime along the way, it can be a useful way to evaluate the reasonability of what their defense is.
I went to law school, finished and then realized it was not on brand for me to be a lawyer, and so im now a middle aged dj who argues with houseplants and some people on twitter sometimes - but that aside, I sort of recall the reason for each check trump cut as qualifying a separate charge, like or in answering the question as to why he couldn’t have just written a personal check (which George got perfect I think, this is just my added thought bubble to the implication that the issue is about proper file management and recording) - I sort of remember being told that an additional charge for each infraction, like the charge per check could be best understood as representing a moment of time in which the defendant has a choice and doesn’t need to continue to crime, like so each time he cuts a check, like if he cut MC Cheques for $1, like 150k different checks, that would necessarily mean that he had 150k moments to pause and not write the check but did so despite it being a crime. Like I know it’s more in the context of mens rea and “heat of the moment” type issues, like in the “did the defendant have a period to cool down after catching his wife with another man before he shot that man” - but the same sort of cool down period or period in which to reflect on the matter and where he has the window of time to have made a choice to either crime or not, that’s why each check and each misfiled financial document represents a separate count; he didn’t just do a crime one time, he had time to reconsider the way he was handling it and chose not to again and again. I’m sure the prosecutor will highlight that, but yeah, it helps to think of the defendant as walking down a crime path and considering the options they had to not crime along the way, it can be a useful way to evaluate the reasonability of what their defense is.