Counsel for Donald Trump gave notice Tuesday they intend to put forth a quasi advice-of-counsel defense in the former president’s upcoming Manhattan criminal case, but observers say they’re hard-pressed to imagine the presiding judge will allow it.
“They’re very good lawyers, but it’s sort of a spaghetti theory,” J. Bruce Maffeo, senior counsel at Cozen O’Connor, said of the filing from Trump’s defense team giving notice they will not be providing a formal advice-of-counsel defense. “They’re throwing something up against the walls to see if it sticks.”
