Apr Prosecutors News Today

Closing arguments just wrapped in the trial of jussie smollett. pr prosecutors spoke for two hours before the defense team took over. >> the actor faces six counts for staging a racist homophobic attack against himself. cnns omar jimenez joins us from chicago. each side is accusing the other side of putting liars on the stand. what were the key arguments, would you say, from each side? >> reporter: well, victor, alisyn, after nearly three years this criminal trial of jussie smollett is set to he...

Currently awaiting the june 25th sentence. his attorneys are pushing for a court intervention here to improve those conditions inside of the basically its an ten by eight foot windowless cell thats been held in in this facility. in new york city. however, prosecutors here are arguing that if you give this individual the requested two hours of a week for outdoor recreation, there are various concerns here. the first is that the only recreation alia at that facility is a rooftop thats covered with...

House. maybe donald trump would not because hes such an out the box president. i dont see him being against pawn manafort. >> is that what are you suggesting? >> listen, the presidential power of klclemency, there is a part in there of the idea o of -- there are things that a president can do. manafort committed real crimes and the presidents team has to look at this of what it really is. >> this question of whether he tugt have known each other, this is laid out with someone with that level of ...

Appropriate this week. i will get reaction from a congressman. our correspondents and analysts are standing by. first, lets go to jessica schneider. rea >> reporter: its in the hands of a judge. she has gone to great lengths to listen to evidence from pr prosecutors. m manaforts attorneys say he didnt intentionally do this. at the heart of this is a meeting where paul manafort seemed to sneak away from trump campaign headquarters to a secret meeting with a pman who has tied to russian intelligen...

Aggressive moves or moves we can see as outsiders from prosecutors in the southern district of new york. there have been reports that pr prosecutors in the eastern district of new york have been interested in the prospect of it getting funneled into the inaugural committee. do they have to deconflict with multiple prosculators offices or is there a central way youre doing twhat the justice department? how do you avoid stepping on each others toes? >> thats what we have to do. we have to deconfli...

Judge sullivan says, the more you assist the government, the more you help yourself at time of sentences and what is this? >> this is what we discussed on your show ten minutes ago. why did he plea to this? because he could have been charged with worse crimes and now it is on the record, and judge sullivan doing what judges do, and this is good for flynn, because this is muellers pr prosecutors saying that we think that we could have indicted flynn on these other crimes that we indicted this wee...

There is also potential bank fraud and wire fraud charges setting up with this l.l.c. which was clearly used for purposes other than i am guessing what they stated on, for example, bank account applications and potential money laundering and tax evasion. there is a whole host of things. the really important thing to notice that two things. this tape is not -- no prosecutor is going to rest the case on this recording again. pro pr prosecutors building cases putting together over lap evidence that...

Face and the prospect that he might try to get a break from the government in exchange for his cooperation. cooperation doesnt mean he agrees to be nice. cooperation means he agrees that he will give him some information, information that would be of greater value to those prosecutors than whatever value they might see. if they have the goods on you and youre facing serious charges you to have something really good to give them in order to persuade the pr prosecutors to accept that information i...

Cohen to make sure the president got what he needed and the women didnt get much. both stormy daniels and karen mcdougal have sued to get out of these payment deals in part with keith davidson supposedly on their side. heres the story that just broke in "the washington post." keith davidson is cooperating with federal authorities who are investigating trump attorney michael cohen. davidson has been asked by pr prosecutors in the southern district of new york to provide electronic information acc...

Hernandez basement in june of 2013. pr prosecutors believe that the ones in the middle are the air jorda jordans that hernandez was wearing, and the sneaker that made this print near lloyds body, but the defense gets the investigator to admit that he cant prove a e key point. >> sir, you cant tell us if aaron hernandez made that impressi impression, can you? >> no. >> reporter: the defense also chips away at the prosecutions contention that the murder weapon was in this trash bag and that hernan...