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In 2019, the Nevada Supreme Court updated all of its Rules of Civil Procedure, including Rule 35, which governs requests to mentally or physically examine a claimant. The local plaintiffs’ bar was unhappy with the changes to Rule 35 and lobbied the Legislature.
This testimony, other testimony after you get done doing whatever you're going to do this week, do you ever expect to go back and ask for any sort of reduction in sentence? >> yes. there are ongoing investigations currently being conducted that have nothing to do with this committee or congress that i am assisting in. and it is for the benefit of a rule 35 motion, yes. >> so you expect, and perhaps what you testify here today will affect, going back and reducing this what we think is a relatively light three-year sentence, you expect to go back and ask for a further reduction? >> based off of ...
Letter. and it's certainly but tsomethie judge will consider because they look at the person as a whole. so standing alone, this testimony won't get him a reduction. but his incentive to tell the truth here is huge, because it will also allow that to go into a letter if the southern district ends up writing one. and it will be very important in a judge's consideration of whether his sentence should be reduced. >> as we watch michael cohen walking back in from this break, ken dilanian has joined us. one of the quick points, ken, he testified in his statement that mr. trump's lawyers, his person...
Lying in some way, if they determine that, they can rip up his agreement with them and he is susceptible for being prosecuted for crimes he had immunity for in that agreement. he would be subject to more jail time in addition to possible charges for perjury for lying here. that's the stick. the carrot, as far as the southern district of new york, cohen said something today that i think confirms what has sort of been out there as speculation, that it seems like he's continuing to work directly with the southern district of new york. so i think he's trying to get what's called a rule 35, a post-...
>> it does mean that. there's that very real potential. with michael cohen, it appears, given the fact he went to the, apparently, initially, to the special counsel, didn't -- wasn't truthful with them as a footnote shows, and then went up to the southern district and had sort of a partial cooperation up there, that he was slow in realizing that he had to come forward, and that's why this information is kind of dribbled out, out of him, and i think what's going on, he's got a very savvy lawyer, principal criminal lawyer, as well as one who is sort of handling the public side of this, and i thi...