To get to Donald Trump, special counsel Jack Smith went straight through the ex-president's lawyers.
The prosecutor who has secured two indictments against the former president is testing the legal profession in new ways with the cases.
Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University Law School, said the lawyers, and Mr. Smith’s use of them in making his case, could create some legal headwinds for the prosecutor. Mr. Smith cited the crime-fraud exception, which says a lawyer can’t be involved in assisting the commission of a crime. Judge Beryll A. Howell, an Obama appointee, ruled that Mr. Corcoran had to testify to the grand jury that brought the charges.
The second case on the events surrounding the 2020 election mentions four of Mr. Trump’s lawyers as unindicted co-conspirators. Among them are believed to be Rudolph W. Giuliani, John Eastman and Sidney Powell. “It has the potential to turn the legal profession inside out because the targets are the ‘wrong politics,’” said Mr. Clevenger. “It is banana republic stuff. They are targeting lawyers based on who the client is or based on the ideology of the lawyer.”
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