SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 27 -- No one on the Maxwell jury
had gotten COVID during the second hiatus, at
least no one knew they did. So they resumed
their deliberations, and Kurt resumed his
vigil, after two live streams in Foley Square,
one on his platform and one on another's.
Soon there was a jury note: they wanted
pilot Dave Rodgers' testimony - and they
wanted a white board, and highlighters, and
post-in notes. It seemed they were settling
in.
Then
they wanted a Palm Beach Police Department
officer's testimony, the one from the 2005
search of El Brillo Way the video of which
Kurt had uploaded
but YouTube said could not be monetized, it
was "not suitable for all advertisers."
This he found strange,
given that it was a court exhibit, and a
sanitized one at that. Perhaps if CNN had put
it up. He appealed and prevailed. But not on
the songs.
By
mid afternoon, Judge Nathan summoned the
lawyers (and Maxwell, in a brown sweater, from
out of the holding cell) for another note, and
something new.
The note was, If we find that the defendant
aided in the transportation of Jane's return
flight from New Mexico, but not her flight to
New Mexico, and if the trip was for the
purpose of illegal sexual activity, can we
find her guilty of the second element of Count
Four?
Judge Nathan called it incomprehensible, and
proposed to tell the jury that if they didn't
reach a verdict tomorrow by 5 pm, they should
stay to 6 pm. Or longer.
The
defense didn't like it, but Judge Nathan said
under the case law she had the discretion. And
probably she did. Did the case law say
anything about a judge causing a three day
break in her own jury trial, to go to
Washington seeking confirmation to a higher
court? Since the only appeal would be to the
Second Circuit, this would seem to be a matter
of discretion as well.
As to the note, Kurt thought and wrote, Since
the juror had, earlier on Monday, asked to get
all of pilot Dave Rodgers' testimony, it
seemed they're drilling into specific flights,
to and from NM, and how the law applies to
each of them. But why did the SDNY
prosecutors leave the case so narrow? Why
indeed.
With
the time between the jury notes, Kurt went to
the overflow courtroom 110, where UN briber Ng
Lap Seng had been tried. Each day at that time
Kurt gave up his phone to the Court Security
Officer, and picked it back up to fun outside
and live stream, or try to photograph Ng
getting into his black Escalade with the
security guards he paid to keep him under
house arrest.
Ng, like Epstein, had a
thing for massages. It seemed to be a UN
thing. Even on this December 27, with no UN
noon briefing until January, the UN
data-dumped three
new rapes, by Cameroon in CAR and India
in DRC.
Kurt emailed Antonio Guterres, his
deputy Amina J. Mohammed and four spokesperson
questions about them, but no answer. It was a
world of impunity but at least the Maxwell
jury had a white board. #MaximumMaxwell.
And so it
continued. Click
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(2d).
Note:
On October 29,
2021 and again on November 12
Ghislaine
Maxwell and
the US
Attorney's
Office for the
Southern
District of
New York filed
a flurry of
motions in
limine,
heavily
redacted; the
Government
argued that
trial exhibits
are not public
and will be
withheld.
Inner City
Press opposed
and opposes
the continued
secrecy.
Inner City Press
will cover the trial, and all
the comes before and after it;
#CourtCaseCast and song I,
Song
2, Song
3, fifth song
and now Nov
27 song
The underlying
case is US v. Maxwell,
20-cr-330 (Nathan).
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