| Theranos
Trial Has Had 2 Podcast Carreyrou Now
Falls to 14 Minutes Wants Off Witness List
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- ESPN
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 1 – The Elizabeth
Holmes / Theranos trial has
much to recommend it. Mad Dog
Mattis spinning, and at least
two podcasts covering it
weekly.
But that
might go down to one, or one
and half.
On
September 30 journalist John
Carreyrou of the WSJ filed a
motion trying to get off
Holmes' witness list, or for
an exemption so he can
nevertheless enter the
courtroom. Alongside those
legal issues, there's this
from the motion returnable
October 18:
"The Supreme
Court has long recognized that
the press and public enjoy a
First Amendment “right
of access to criminal trials.”
Globe Newspaper Co., 457 U.S.
at 604-05 (emphasis
removed). Steeped in
Anglo-American jurisprudence
is the principle that
“throughout its evolution, the
trial has been open to
all who cared to observe,” as
criminal trials are
“presumptively open.”
Richmond Newspapers,
Inc. v. Virginia, 448 U.S.
555, 564, 575 (1980). Indeed,
a trial courtroom is “a
public place where the
people generally – and
representatives of the media –
have a right to be
present.” Id. at 578. 8
Carreyrou does not suggest
that the Court has entirely
shut down or closed the trial
in this action. Far from
it; the Court has made efforts
to ensure general access. But,
unless he is exempted,
Carreyrou will be the only
member of the news media
especially barred from
attending the trial and
reporting firsthand on its
proceedings."
For Inner City
Press, the only media banned
from the United Nations and
for 1287 days now, it also
stands in contrast to the
recent R.Kelly trial in EDNY
in Brooklyn, where ALL media
and public were banned from
the courtroom, with (as Judge
Davila has for some reason
done in US v. Holmes) no
listen-only call in
line.
Carreyrou has
been doing a weekly podcast,
albeit one which fell to 14
minutes this week. ABC has a
podcast too - derivative, but
still full length. They can
get into the courtroom. We'll
have more on these issues.
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