A former federal prosecutor says it remains unclear what will happen next for Mayor Eric Adams as he prepares to appear in court Wednesday, where prosecutors are seeking to dismiss corruption charges against him.

“This is a totally unprecedented thing, and so nobody knows what's next,” Manhattan-based defense attorney Duncan Levin said in an interview on “Mornings On 1.”

Justice Department lawyers and Adams will face a federal judge in the afternoon, with the prosecution asking for approval to drop federal corruption charges filed against the mayor last year.

“The question’s whether the judge, Dale Ho, is gonna rubber stamp the government’s decision to dismiss these charges,” Levin said. “There’s not even a modicum of a chance that he’s gonna do that, so I think we’re gonna expect some fireworks of some kind.”

Ho has said the parties must be prepared to address the government’s reasons for dropping the case, the “scope and effect of Mayor Adams’s ‘consent in writing’” and the “procedure for resolution of the motion.”

However, Levin noted Ho has little authority to prevent the charges from being dismissed.

“The judge really has very little power to stop the prosecution from doing this. I think this is gonna be more of an airing of all the issues in open court, trying to understand what’s going on and maybe an attempt to try to embarrass the administration and lay it all out there,” Levin said.

The case is being dismissed without prejudice, meaning charges could be refiled. Levin said this raises questions about the Justice Department’s reasoning.

“It exposes some of the ridiculousness of this letter coming from Emil Bove at DOJ, because if he were really so concerned that this prosecution was tainted because the former U.S. attorney somehow was making public statements, he was running for office. If all these things were true, they would dismiss it with prejudice,” Levin said. “And the fact that it's being done without prejudice, those words are doing a lot of work there, because what it means—and the critics are correct to point out—that this prosecution can hang over the mayor's head for as long as the Trump administration would like that to happen.”

While the charges are expected to be dropped, Levin said uncertainty remains over Adams’ legal future.

“In reality, most of the cases that are dismissed without prejudice never come back. I mean, it's pretty rare to have a case come back, so [Adams] can probably rest assured that it's done. But no one really knows,” he said.