Trump lawyer's ethical conflict with Stormy Daniels should get him removed from case: legal expert
Donald Trump's defense attorney in the Stormy Daniels case has an ethical conflict, according to a legal expert.
Joe Tacopina, who's representing the former president in an investigation by the Manhattan district attorney's office, revealed five years ago that Daniels approached him about representing her before she hired Michael Avenatti as her lawyer in the hush-money case that led to former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's conviction.
"I can't really talk about my impressions or any conversations we had because there is an attorney-client privilege that attaches even to a consultation," Tacopina told CNN's Don Lemon on March 16, 2018.
Tacopina had previously confirmed that Daniels had contacted him to possibly represent her in the case, which he never did, but that should be enough to prohibit him from serving as Trump's lawyer in the case under American Bar Association and New York Rules of Professional Conduct, according to law professor Ryan Goodman.
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