After New York City Mayor Eric Adams pled not guilty on Sept. 27 to federal charges of accepting bribes and illegal campaign contributions from Turkish nationals, Bennett Capers, associate dean for research, spoke to The New York Times about public opinion in the wake of the indictment of Adams.
Still, accusations of public officials abusing the public trust, especially where public money is involved, are the sorts of cases that can outrage jurors enough that they vote for conviction, said Bennett Capers, a former prosecutor for the Southern District of New York and a professor at the Fordham University School of Law.
“Everybody obviously is innocent until proven guilty,” Mr. Capers said. “But it is hard to read the indictment and not think Eric Adams is cooked.”
Read “In Adams Indictment, Legal Experts See Strengths, Potential Pitfalls” in The New York Times.
