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Yale Professor Jed Rubenfeld explains the Manhattan case against Donald Trump on the issue of political prosecution. Bragg made it clear he was running to get Trump. Isn’t this what Stalin did? Is this selective prosecution? It is very hard to prove. Courts say there has to be a comparator in which a person committed […] The post Brilliant Analysis of Political Persecution & Unanimity in Trump Case appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

A House Republican from upstate New York is calling on her state’s Democratic governor, Kathy Hochul, to pardon Donald Trump after the former president was recently found guilty on all counts in a hush money trial. Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY), a New York Bar Association member, made the request in a letter on Thursday that also urged Hochul to remove Alvin Bragg as Manhattan district attorney, saying he failed to uphold the “high ethical standards” of his role. Bragg “used a warped version of events to push the manufactured charges” against Trump, a decision that was, “At best … legally questionable, at worst it’s criminal,” Tenney wrote in the letter, which has been posted to her congressional website. She said Bragg “neglected to prosecute other individuals” in similar cases “as his only purpose in bringing this case is to target the former President,” adding, “Targeting an individual, especially for political purposes, is unethical and unconstitutional.” A jury returned a guilty verdict against Trump on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to allegedly cover up a tryst with adult film star Stormy Daniel as part of a “catch-and-kill” scheme to influence the 2016 election. Trump, who denied the affair and pleaded not guilty to the charges, has vowed to appeal. Sentencing is set for July 11, just four days before Trump is expected to receive the GOP presidential nomination at the Republican convention in Milwaukee. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP Hochul has given no indication that she is interested in dealing Trump a pardon as he seeks a second term in the White House. The New York governor released a statement saying the verdict “reaffirms that no one is above the law.” Still, there is some pressure from the Democratic Party. Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN), who briefly challenged President Joe Biden for their party’s presidential nomination, posted to X that Hochul “should pardon him [Trump] for the good of the country.” Three other criminal matters hang over Trump, including two led by special counsel Jack Smith and another by Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. It is unclear whether any of those will reach the trial stage before the 2024 election.

Pamela Smart, the woman who became infamous in the 1990s for having an affair with a 15-year-old boy who eventually murdered her husband, has finally acknowledged her responsibility for the death. Smart, 56, accepted responsibility for her husband’s murder in a videotaped statement in an attempt to get her sentence for her role in the crime reduced, the Associated Press reported. Smart was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for her part in the murder. In her taped statement, Smart said she had begun to “dig deeper into my own responsibility” while participating in a writing group in the prison where she is incarcerated. “For me, that was really hard, because going into those places, in those spaces is where I found myself responsible for something I desperately didn’t want to be responsible for, my husband’s murder,” she said in the video, according to the AP. “I had to acknowledge for the first time in my own mind and my own heart how responsible I was, because I had deflected blame all the time, I think, almost as if it was a coping mechanism, because the truth of being so responsible was very difficult for me.” Smart has already exhausted her appeals for her convictions on accomplice to first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and witness tampering. She’s asking for a conversation with New Hampshire’s Executive Council and Gov. Chris Sununu in the hopes of getting her sentence reduced. The council rejected her last request in 2022, which she appealed to the state Supreme Court. The highest court dismissed her petition. Val Fryatt, a cousin to Smart’s murdered husband Gregory, told the AP that Smart accepted responsibility “without admitting the facts around what made her ‘fully responsible.’” Fryatt also noted that Smart never mentioned Gregory’s name in her statement. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP In a letter to Gov. Sununu, Smart said she is remorseful. “I made excuses, dismissed my own involvement, and blamed everyone else but myself,” Smart wrote, adding that because she didn’t pull the trigger, she didn’t consider herself responsible, which “became comfortable in my warped logic.” Smart was 22 years old and working as a high school media coordinator in Derry, New Hampshire, when she began having an affair with then-15-year-old sophomore Billy Flynn, who would eventually murder Smart’s 24-year-old husband. The couple was married less than a year before they started to have problems in their relationship. On May 1, 1990, Smart came home to find her husband dead. Investigators eventually learned about the affair with Flynn, and they were both charged with her husband’s death, along with three of Flynn’s friends. Flynn and the other three have all been released after serving their sentences.