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Trial Schulte Is Called Good Defense
Lawyer By Judge As Blogger Prepares
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY, July 7 – It was the day for
closing arguments, by the prosecutors
then Josh Schulte, and Kurt Wheelock
made it his business to get in earlier
than usual.
Assistant
US Attorney Lockard laid into Schulte as
a destructive nihilist, sneaking in to
get the back-up files and filing false
complaints.
When
Schulte's turn came he had a phrase,
forensic artifacts, saying that the
government's case lacked them.
He asked,
if he was really the leaker, why would
he have complained so loudly? Wouldn't
he have tried to fly before the
radar?
The Google
searches? They were part of his habits,
as a computer geek. (The AUSA objected,
and Judge Furman sustained).
His
apartment was raided, then his cell in
the MCC. Sure some of the things in the
notebooks were troubling. But, Schulte
said, prison are bad places and he was
losing it. Why not just charge him with
contraband cell phone, and not
espionage?
When
Schulte finished, and the jury left,
Judge Furman congratulated him and said
depending on how things turn out, you
might make a good criminal defense
lawyer. Schulte laughed, and not the
forced ha-ha he deployed sometimes while
cross examining.
Judge
Furman gave him a copy of the final jury
charge, and said he'd see him the next
morning at 9. So would Kurt Wheelock.
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