Writer Jerome Corsi’s complaint against special counsel Robert Mueller’s team won’t be “taken seriously” by the Justice Department — but it’d be a good defense at trial, according to Alan Dershowitz.
In remarks to Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson, the Harvard Law professor said it appears Mueller’s prosecutors have a “very weak” case against Corsi.
The “Killing The Deep State: the Fight to Save President Trump" writer has released documents showing prosecutors offered him a deal to plead guilty to a false statements charge. He's rejected the deal and says he didn't knowingly mislead investigators.
“I don't think that we are going to hear a criminal complaint being taken seriously by the Justice Department against the special prosecutor. That's never happened,” Dershowitz said.
But he said Corsi would likely beat prosecution by the Mueller team.
"Raising this [the allegations in the complaint] as a defense, both as a legal defense and a factual defense, I think has some real credibility,” Dershowitz said. “I think they have a very defensible case and it would be wise not necessarily to capitulate to the threat of prosecution.”
“There is no law prohibiting someone from being indicted for lying on the basis of the first lie, but in 55 years of practicing criminal law, I have never heard or read of any case where a person was allowed to amend his testimony and then corrected it, and was then threatened with indictment for the unamended, original alleged lie,” Dershowitz said. “That just seems unprecedented if those facts are correct.”
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