Special counsel Jack Smith’s team revealed the details of the employee’s about-face in a new filing.

A Trump employee who monitored security cameras at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate abruptly retracted his earlier grand jury testimony and implicated Trump and others in obstruction of justice just after switching from an attorney paid for by a Trump political action committee to a lawyer from the federal defender’s office in Washington, prosecutors said in a court filing Tuesday.

  • flipht@kbin.social
    102·
    1 year ago

    Ianal, but I think they have a responsibility to at least let the defendant know about their options. Other than that, they can have a strategy or suggest the defendant accept the less good options.

    Sounds like this guy realized that their “help” wasn’t in his own interest.

        • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org
          218·
          1 year ago

          I’m not commenting on anal sex. I’m commenting on the stupid practice of wild speculation summed up with a bizarre acronym. That acronym should die on reddit.

          • extant@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            I know exactly what you’re talking about, and my point still stands that when giving advislce you need to make it clear you are not a lawyer and if you are that you are not their lawyer when giving advice that could be misconstrued as legal advice and possibly cause liability issues. Telling someone directly “I am not a lawyer” or saying it as an acronym accomplishes just that. This isn’t a practice that stems from Reddit, but the legal system itself. While using it as an acronym was popularized over the Internet it’s certainly never been exclusive to Reddit but anywhere things may be construed as legal advice are.

              • extant@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                I agree to an extent, but you can still provide valued information without being a lawyer a few examples: a subject matter expert, sharing first hand experience, contact information, or documents one might need. Sometimes those things might even be better than advice received from a lawyer.

                • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org
                  11·
                  1 year ago

                  Fair enough. I guess my point is two fold: 1) “ianal” sounds stupid. 2) if you’re doing stuff like this so often you need an acronym for it, you probably should check yourself.

          • jeremyparker@programming.dev
            2·
            1 year ago

            It seems like you have a problem with the wild speculation, not the acronym. Which is legit, people don’t need to have opinions on every single thing they think about, and they certainly don’t need to share them. But it kinda seems like they’re going to anyway. And, in that case, what’s better, wild speculation or wild speculation that admits it?

          • rhsJack@lemmy.world
            43·
            1 year ago

            Agreed. I think both should die on Reddit. And, please, do it privately with another consenting adult. The “talking out of your ass about stuff you shouldn’t be talking about” stuff. And the butt stuff, too. But mostly the former.