| Schulte Jury
Thumbed Nose At Judge Furman Order As
Blogger Restarts, Brutal Kangaroo
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY, July 26 – It was two weeks after
the jury's guilty verdicts on Josh
Schulte when he appeared again before
Judge Furman.
This was
back in 40 Foley Square, Judge Furman's
smaller courtroom on the 11th floor.
Schulte was brought in by Marshals, and
there other unidentified government
agents in the small gallery with Kurt
Wheelock.
It
was time to pick a date for what Schulte
called the "CP" trial but his departing
stand-by counsel spelled out in
full.
Judge Furman shot down Schulte's written
request to be able to use the SCIF in
500 Pearl Street to prepare for the
trial.
Schulte
wrote that he would need it once a week
to go over the computers and servers
seized from his East 39th Street
apartment and said by the prosecutors in
the first and second trial to contain
National Defense
Information.
Now
the prosecutors - or prosecutor, as only
one of them bothered to come to this
post-conviction proceeding - said
Schulte didn't need the SCIF at all. Now
their position was that the computers
had no classified information, he could
just stay in the MDC where he was banned
from communication in any way with the
media or seeing anything on the
Internet.
The CP
trial was set, as it happened, for
September 11, 2023. Schulte was taken
out by the Marshals, his parents were
not there. Kurt rushed out of the
courtroom and over to Brooklyn to catch
the EDNY guilty plea of R. Kelly's
self-described manager Donnell Russell.
This one was for threatening a Jane Doe,
after his partial conviction for calling
in a gun threat to the Neuehouse theater
on 25th Street.
Kurt
recorded his Schulte proceeding summary
vlog
over there on Joralemon Street. Brutal
Kangaroo in Brooklyn.
But
when he got back to the SDNY Press Room,
and after he'd rushed over to the gym in
the housing projects and everyone else
had left, Kurt saw two things he felt
compelled to write about.
[July
20 denial of
access here;
Brutal
Kangaroo]
Judge
Furman belatedly unsealed Schulte's habeus
corpus petition, which had been
held off-limits in full. Kurt put it up
on DocumentCloud
before running over to the gym. And when
he got back he saw a short interview
with one of the Schulte jurors, Number
Four, Juan Flores. And it floored him.
Flores
said, "Some of the jurors took
meticulous notes, which they shared with
the others once deliberations began."
What?!?
Kurt went
back to find Judge Furman's jury
instructions. He'd been there when they
were read out, but he wanted to make
sure. And here it was:
"If any
one of you took notes during the course
of the trial, you should not show your
notes to, or discuss your notes
with, any other jurors during your
deliberations. Any notes you have taken
are to be used solely to assist you. The
fact that a particular juror has taken
notes entitles that juror’s views to no
greater weight than those of any other
juror."
There is was. The jury instructions had
been openly violated.
Ghislaine
Maxwell juror 50, so-called Scotty David
(Kurt had learned and published his real
name, but hadn't pushed it beyond that,
concerned there might be some unwritten
rule about how to describe jurors) had
bragged to the British press that he had
lied on his jury questionnaire about
sexual abuse history.
This made Judge Nathan, now on the
Second Circuit Court of Appeals, hold a
special hearing and question Scotty
David, who got his own lawyer for the
proceeding. So what would Judge Furman
do now? More on Patreon here.
[July
20 denial of
access here;
Brutal
Kangaroo]
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