• yesman@lemmy.world
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    Well yes but actually no. That would only be appropriate after an investigation is complete and charges are filed. And prosecutors are pretty limited in what they’re allowed to say publicly even after that.

    I know Trump’s justice dept has screwed up a few prosecutions by making dumb public statements.

    Attacking James directly is a media strategy rather than a legal one I suspect.

    • TheFogan@programming.dev
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      Well most likely pushing further to get trump admin or trump allies to do something. I’m assuming this is state level and safe from a pardon right?

    • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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      That would only be appropriate after an investigation is complete and charges are filed.

      But the investigation is only supposed to determine if there’s enough evidence to go to trial, right? So worst case, bias would just result in going to trial without a case and wasting the court’s time.