Carol C. Lam
former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California
Carol C. Lam was a U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California and a federal prosecutor for 18 years. She also was a Superior Court judge in San Diego County. She is a legal analyst for MSNBC.
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Carol C. Lam
The fracas over the release of Smith’s Trump investigation findings is a good example of the kind of issues judges wish they didn’t have to decide.
Testimony and reams of text messages in New York clearly highlight Trump’s willingness to take something earned by others and corrupt it for his own benefit.
Nothing says “I’m really not sorry” like one sentence scrawled on a piece of lined notebook paper. But Fani Willis knew what she was getting.
The House Jan. 6 committee, which had first crack at many of Jack Smith’s witnesses, did not have to comply with the rules of evidence and criminal procedure.
In criminal trials, not all audio recordings are created equal. Some provide clear and convincing evidence against a defendant. Others may be muffled and ambiguous.
Should the jury be entitled to hear from any of Trump’s other accusers? That was the weighty question Judge Lewis A. Kaplan had to decide.
