Andy has written another great two-parter on the evidentiary bait-and-switch that Judge Merchan has used in the Trump hush-money trial to allow prosecutors to tell the jury about guilty pleas and settlements for federal campaign-finance-law violations. The prosecution wants these before the jury for the purpose of convincing the jury that the payments to Stormy Daniels were illegal under the federal campaign-finance laws, and thus that Donald Trump knew he was covering up those crimes when he engaged in falsifying business records.
