• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Probably didn’t help that when he walked out of court he said:

    “they were engaged in changing votes.”

    When a reporter responded there was no proof of such an allegation, Giuliani said: “Oh you’re damn right there is. Stay tuned.”

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      7 months ago

      Stay tuned? The show already rolled credits. You can’t just introduce new evidence after the trial is over and a verdict is reached. And he was a lawyer, what a joke.

      • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
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        Yes. We call that discovery issues and if judge has reasonable belief about malicious intent you get into sanctions which can contain contempt charges and referrals to the bar.

        Or to put it simpler: if he doesn’t, he lied, and that’s a bad look. If he does, there’s a chance he loses his law license, goes to jail, or jeopardizes his case even after the fact.

        That’s not evil, that’s JUST dumb.