Is "The Truth, the Truth" When It Comes to Prosecutors?

[Is "The Truth, the Truth" When It Comes to Prosecutors?]( by Alan M. Dershowitz • August 20, 2018 at 9:00 pm [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Addthis]( [Send]( [Print]( - All the Special Counsel needs, in order to charge a subject of an investigation with lying to a prosecutor, is a single witnesses willing to contradict the subject. - The witness may not only be "singing," he may also be "composing" – that is making up or embellishing a story because he knows that the better his story, the better the deal. - Under federal law, the testimony of such a flipped witness need not be corroborated in order to secure a conviction. - Even one question that results in an answer that is contradicted by one witness would be enough to spring the perjury trap.   US Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating US President Donald J. Trump. Commentators who repeatedly pronounce that if the president is telling the truth he risks nothing by submitting to an interview, are simply wrong. (By The White House from Washington, DC (P072012PS-0298) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons) When Rudy Giuliani stated, perhaps inartfully, that "truth isn't truth," he was getting at a higher – or should I say lower – truth. This is a truth that virtually every experienced defense attorney and prosecutor understands: namely that prosecutors get to pick which witness -- and which "truth" -- to believe. Giuliani was discussing President Trump's decision whether or not to be interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Giuliani made the point that even if President Trump testified truthfully, he could be accused of lying to a prosecutor – a serious felony – if the prosecutor chose to believe witnesses who have provided a different account. To be specific, US President Donald J. Trump has stated publicly that he was not aware of the Trump Tower meeting between a Russian woman and his son until after it took place. One of Trump's attorneys at the time, Michael Cohen, has apparently said that Trump was aware of the meeting. [Continue Reading Article]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [RSS]( [Donate]( Copyright © Gatestone Institute, All rights reserved. You are subscribed to this list as {EMAIL} You can change how you receive these emails: [Update your subscription preferences]( or [Unsubscribe from this list]( [Gatestone Institute]() 14 East 60 St., Suite 705, New York, NY 10022