| Guilty Plea in Jane Doe
Case Suspended When Press Entered
Then US Seals Motion to Seal
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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EDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 1 – There was a US versus
Jane Doe case listed on
October 4, 2022 at noon before
U.S. District Court for the
Eastern District of New York
Judge Dora Lizette Irizarry.
Inner City Press, now covering
EDNY, went to cover it.
There was
no one else in the courtroom
gallery. Judge Irizarry said,
Before I accept your guilty
plea I have to ask a series of
questions --
Then the defense
lawyer, Jeremy Schneider who
Inner City Press has covered
in SDNY most recently in US v.
Raji, said, "May I
approach?"
There followed a
long sidebar, the second part
of which was with a court
reporter. A man
from the prosecutors' table
came and asked Inner City
Press for I.D., which it
provided. In fact, it is
covering the US v. Barrack
(and US v. Zottola and other)
trials in EDNY.
The
sidebar broke up, and they
decided to adjourn the
already-begun guilty plea.
Inner City Press jotted down
the date: November 2, and
intended to attend to cover
it.
But then on
October 26 the EDNY
prosecutors filed a letter:
"Dear Judge Irizarry: A change
of plea hearing is scheduled
for November 2, 2022 at 12:00
p.m. in the above-referenced
matter. The government
respectfully submits in a
separate filing a motion and
proposed order to close the
courtroom for the
above-described proceeding.
For the reasons stated in the
motion, the government
requests that the motion and
any order entered by the Court
be filed under seal."
The motion, and
the reasons given to seal,
were themselves sealed. Judge
Irizarry set a 9:30 am
hearing. Watch this site.
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