'Dream scenario for prosecutors': Legal expert says Jack Smith has upper hand in docs case
Special counsel Jack Smith is planning to call a number of rank-and-file staffers at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago country club to give testimony in the classified documents case.
This is a massively consequential development for the case, argued former federal prosecutor Elie Honig on CNN — and a weapon that prosecutors don't usually get to have.
"Elie, how important could this source be?" asked anchor Anderson Cooper.
"This is a dream scenario for prosecutors," said Honig.
"Ordinarily in the federal system, when you're a prosecutor, you build your case on a cooperator, who is now your witness," Honig explained. "So what happens? The defense lawyers stand up in closing and they, say folks, you're going convict my client based on the word of a criminal? And then we prosecutors stand up and say to the jury, look, we'd love to call honest, hard-working people to come in and tell you about a crime, but that type of person isn't on the inside on the inside of a crime. Here, they're literally on the inside of a crime. These are honest, hard-working, regular folks, had nothing to do with the crime. They're inside the bedrooms, inside the closets."
"Even if they can't give the whole story A to Z, they can give important details," added Honig. "They saw a box here or there, they overheard a conversation. So if I'm a prosecutor, this is the best-case scenario."
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