| Virtual Juror In Unprecedented
SDNY Trial Of Iranian Banker Ali Sadr
As US Attorney Objects
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Thread,
Patreon
Song
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 16 – Iranian banker Ali
Sadr Hashemi Nejad is on
trial, charged with money
laundering and violating US
sanctions including through a
Venezuelan infrastructure
project.
On March
16 amid the Coronavirus
COVID-19 crisis, jury
deliberations ran into a
problem. SDNY Judge Nathan
proposed proceeding with ten
jurors in the jury room and
one connected from outside by
video.
Assistant
US Attorney Michael Krause
objected. But Judge Nathan
said there are extraordinary
circumstances and she would
proceed thusly.
Judge
Nathan then spoke to the
remote (male) juror by video.
He is at home with wife, child
and child care worker. She
told him, if and when they
need his attention, all
deliberation must cease. Inner
City Press live tweeted it
all: thread here.
More on Patreon here.
The
SDNY US Attorney's Office has
double standards on
#Coronavirus: it wants the US
v. Andrews trial to go
forward, and wants other
stopped. Defense lawyers say
some AUSAs have asked to and
are working from home.
Ali Sadr is
represented by lawyer Reid
Weingarten of Steptoe &
Johnson and, on November 25 as
reported
by Inner City Press by Brian
M. Heberlig
before U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Judge Alison J. Nathan.
On Sunday,
March 8 [alongside this song]
the US Attorney Office which
closed its
case on March
9 past
9 pm submitted a letter, here.
The case is US
v. Nejad,
18-cr-00224
(Nathan).
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