A federal judge has shot down a bid for a mistrial by attorneys for Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann that was sought after witness testimony revealed he may take the Fifth at his trial for allegedly lying to the FBI.US District Judge Christopher Cooper told Sussmann’s defense team and prosecutors he would deny the motion Thursday morning — but agreed to strike part of the testimony in question from the trial transcript.In their Wednesday night motion to strike — “or alternatively for a mistrial” — Sussmann’s attorneys said testimony under cross-examination by Marc Elias, the Clinton campaign’s former general counsel, was “nonresponsive and prejudicial.”
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