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Trial Schulte Reads 2 Laptops To Sleeping
Alternate As Blogger Wonders How
By Matthew
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June 24 – When the Joshua
Schulte trial resumed on June
24, he'd had two more days to
prepare, in the Metropolitan
Detention Center in Brooklyn
and the SCIF on the ninth
floor of the courthouse.
But so had the
witness, Microsoft's Patrick
Leedom, in better conditions.
Leedom smirking on the witness
state repeated said, I
disagree. The Assist US
Attorney cut in with
"Objection," leading nine
times out of ten to
"Sustained... Move it along,
Mr. Schulte, or I'll have to
shut you
down."
Kurt Wheelock was
sitting in the front row, just
behind Schulte. When he'd come
into the courtroom that was
the only row empty. Schulte's
parents were in the second
row; FBI agent Michael Berger,
an expert witness who would
testify next, was in the
gallery listening to
Leedom.
Schulte had
two laptops along with the
monitor that came with
rostrum. He had Post-It notes
from his stand-by counsel and,
it seemed to Kurt, a few white
or grey hairs in his beard.
His hands were thin, and his
nails were not cut short. When
he laughed, it sounded forced:
Ha. Ha.
In the
back from of the jury box, one
of the alternate jurors was
outright sleeping. Kurt kept
wondering if Judge Furman
would notice and say nothing.
How could his man deliberated,
if he hadn't heard all the
testimony? Maybe it wouldn't
come to that. But maybe it
would. More on Patreon here.
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