Tim Belevetz Quoted in The Washington Post article, "Trump Belief that 2020 Election was Stolen Is Not a Defense, DOJ Says"

Ice MIller partner Tim Belevetz was quoted in The Washington Post article, "Trump Belief that 2020 election was Stolen Is Not a Defense, DOJ says"
 

The article included:

Tim Belevetz, a defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, said that's because at this stage the judge is not looking at the facts but only at whether the charging language itself is sufficient to allege a crime.

"Did the president actually believe that what he was saying was true -- that's a question for the jury, " Belevetz said. "It would generally not be the type of basis on which a judge would toss a case out pretrial." As for how a jury might evaluate that defense, Belevetz said that in white collar cases prosecutors often point to what advisers told a defendant as evidence of dishonesty. And "a lot of times the defendant believes that he or she is the smartest person in the room." Whether that's exonerating, he said, "is for the jury to determine."

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