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Milton Jury Selection Nikola News Readers
Are Questioned By Judge at Sidebar
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 12 –
The awaited trial of Nikola
founder Trevor Milton for wire
and securities fraud began, in
its way, on September 12 with
jury selection.
Inner City Press was there. Thread:
Now in Courtroom
318 of 40 Foley Square, the
lawyer mill around, waiting
for pool of prospective
jurors. Standing at railing is
Milton, whispering with two.
Even here in
courtroom 318, the witness
& counsel boxes have COVID
Plexiglass. But here, the
jurors will retired to &
ultimate deliberate in 1
rather than 2 jury rooms.
There are other
trials kicking off today,
hence the delay in jury pool
walk-over from 500 Pearl
Street.
Update of
noon: we're only on the 2d
prospective juror, who says
he's read an article about
#Nikola. Judge Ramos says, Why
don't you come up and we'll
speak to you at sidebar
(non-public). Milton's lawyers
go up; he remains at defense
table.
Long sidebar is
over. Mukasey returns to
defense table and whispers
with Trevor. No decision is
reached - Judge Ramos moves on
to prospective juror #3, who
says she works at Capital One
Bank where she was
investigated, questioned 30
times
Capital One
prospective juror clarifies
that she is a teller who got
robbed and so was questioned
30 times in 2020, height of
COVID bank robbery
apparently.
Judge Ramos:
Could you be fair? Prospective
Juror 3: Yes. This could take
a while...
Prospective Juror
4 says she can't read the
small type of the jury
questionnaire. Judge Ramos
asks someone to go up and get
his extra pair of magnifying /
reading glasses.
Prospective
Juror 5 has read about Nikola
- another long sidebar begins.
To be continued.
The
case is US v.
Milton,
21-cr-478
(Ramos)
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