Famed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz said Sunday on Newsmax that if he were defending former FBI Director James Comey against the government’s charges that he lied to Congress and obstructed a congressional proceeding, he’d focus on the weakness of the case as presented, as Comey has a “real shot at jury acquittal.”
“I would, I think at this point, urge silence and be working on trying to persuade a judge that this was selective prosecution or that this was tried in the wrong place, or that the allegations themselves in this very, very thin — it’s a two-page long, extremely thin indictment — are insufficient to go to trial,” Dershowitz, a Harvard Law professor emeritus, told Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.”
Comey was indicted on two counts of making a false statement and obstruction, charges that stem from his 2020 Senate testimony about leaking FBI information. If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison. His first hearing is set for Oct. 9.
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