DACA, Diante Yarber, Michael Cohen: 3 News Stories You Should Read Today – 4/25/2017
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U.S. Must Resume DACA and Accept New Applications, Federal Judge Rules
In the biggest setback yet for the Trump administration in its decision to end a program that protects undocumented young adults from deportation, a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the government must resume accepting new applications.
Judge John D. Bates of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia said the government’s decision to end the program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, was predicated on the “virtually unexplained” grounds that the program was “unlawful.”
Flipping Cohen against Trump may not be so easy
Secrecy issues make turning a lawyer against a client a legal minefield, experts say
Getting Michael Cohen to rat out President Donald Trump may not be as simple as it sounds.
Although Trump’s detractors are rooting for Trump’s personal attorney to “flip” on the president and cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller to escape a potentially harsh prison sentence, legal obstacles make it difficult for lawyers to expose their clients’ guarded secrets.
Even if Cohen is determined to break his confidences with Trump, legal ethics might deter federal prosecutors from coaxing him to betray his professional confidences with Trump, legal veterans and experts say.
“This idea of ‘flipping’ Cohen — they can’t just flip a lawyer to testify against a client,” longtime defense attorney Harvey Silverglate said. “Even if Cohen doesn’t know better, one would think the FBI and the prosecutors would know better.”
California Cop Who Shot and Killed Diante Yarber Was Previously Charged With Hate Crime, Lawyers Say
A Barstow, Calif., police officer accused of being involved in the fatal shooting of driver Diante Yarber, a young father of three, was convicted of a hate crime back in 2010 but was somehow allowed to return to the police force, attorneys representing Yarber’s family and his passengers say.
Not only was the officer allowed back on the streets to police people he apparently despises, but Yarber’s attorney also says that the officers involved in his client’s death used racial slurs during the confrontation in early April.
One of the officers shouted “[expletive] we’re going to kill you,” attorney Lee Merritt claimed, citing interviews with witnesses, according to KABC-TV.
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