| In Avenatti Stormy Trial Judge Furman
Sets March 20 For Press Access Filings Live
Tweeting Disallowed
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Feb 25 – In the countdown of
the US v. Michael Avenatti
Nike extortion trial, before
the upcoming Stormy Daniels
trial, on February 10 the
charging conference was held,
until 7:10 pm. See Patreon here.
On February
14 Avenatti was found guilty
on all three counts, and his
sentencing was set for June 17
at 4 pm.
Now
February 25, for Avenatti's
Stormy Daniels case, a status
conference was held. Inner
City Press had hoped and even
arranged to live tweet it, as
it did the Nike trial. But it
turned out not to be possible.
What we can report from the
restricted courtroom is that
the trial remains set for
April 21; there are
submissions due about,
ironically, press access on
March 20. Inner City Press
will have more on this - watch
this site.
Avenatti
has been moved out of solitary
confinement but still, his
lawyer said, does not have
access to the discovery in the
case including his own text
messages enumerated by Team
Stormy. Judge Furman indicated
that the parties should confer
and said that his trial date
is firm.
Back on
February 12, after the reading
of a slightly tweaked Nike
jury charge, the jury got the
case to deliberate. On
February 13, the jury asked a
number of questions, some of
which Judge Paul G. Gardephe
expressed frustration at. He
told the jury they could leave
for the day but to clarify one
of its questions, about
recording(s) of the March 21
meeting involving Avenatti.
Video of that meeting here.
Another
question had a simple answer.
Is a filing of a lawsuit
request in order to reach a
settlement agreement? The
answer was and is No. Day's
live-tweeted thread here.
More on Patreon here.
Here's
audio of a question and answer
Inner City Press did on the
evening of February 12 with
ESPN Louisville, here.
More
on Patreon here.
The day before on
February 12 the jurors emerged
in late afternoon to request
to hear one of the Avenatti
phone calls (Inner City Press
has put them on Soundcloud here
and here
and a song here),
and requesting text messages
between Gary Franklin and
Jeffrey Auerbach.
More on Patreon here.
On
February 11, over hours, the
closing arguments were held.
Inner City Press live-tweeted
them, in 96 installments, here.
Assistant
US Attorney Matthew Podolsky
led off with the now famous
"have you held the clients
balls in your hands" audio,
and went on from there.
Avenatti's
lawyer Scott Srebnick covered
the case focusing on the
desired and goals of client
Gary Franklin and his
consultant Jeffrey Auerbach.
His brother
Howard Srebnick followed with
the case from the perspective
of Avenatti in New York,
saying he was carring out
Franklin's stated desire to
"light the fuse" for justice.
AUSA
Daniel Richenthal derided that
narrative, and told the jury
it didn't matter that Mark
Geragos, much less Nike, were
not charged. More on Patreon here.
The
case is US v. Avenatti,
19-cr-373 (Gardephe).
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