Just in: Michael Avenatti is asking Judge Selna to read a "curative jury instruction" Tuesday morning regarding the Geoff Johnson Social Security benefit issue that tells them to "disregard and ignore all such evidence" drive.google.com/file/d/1c4nMNy…
The wording of his proposed instruction is kind of hilarious and classic Avenatti. I think it's unlikely Judge Selna tells the jury exactly this, but as the motion (and my tweets) say, Selna has already said he's thinking about this. So there's going to be something.
I expect the U.S. Attorney's Office will file a response to this by end of Monday. Then the judge will take it up before the jury gets seated on Tuesday. #staytuned Again, Google Drive link to full document is here: drive.google.com/file/d/1c4nMNy…
Just in: Prosecutors' response pretty well lays out why this Social Security stuff is relevant to wire fraud: Avenatti's lies about the trust. "The testimony of Ms. Guerrero and Mr. Goeders strongly corroborated Mr. Johnson’s testimony..." Google Drive: bit.ly/3ry8h0x
"their interactions ... - even if they were in the context of defendant failing to maintain Mr. Johnson’s SSI benefits or help him purchase a house after promising to - are highly relevant to proving the false statements underlying one of the government’s theories of wire fraud."
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New today in Hunter Biden's lawsuit against a former Trump White House aide who distributed the contents of his laptop: Judge Hernan Vera in Los Angeles has rejected Garrett Ziegler's motion to dismiss. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
"Plaintiff did not sue Defendants for creating a report or website. Defendants are being sued for “accessing, tampering with, manipulating, altering, copying and damaging” Plaintiff’s computer data." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Judge Vera also has Matt Gaetz's and Marjorie Taylor Greene's lawsuit against Anaheim over the cancellation of their rallies in 2021. A jury trial is scheduled for June 2025.
Kenneth "Woody" Copeland went to jail on Friday after trying to plead the 5th in rapper Young Thug's trial.
Today, he's back on the stand in jail garb and says he's going to testify.
Watch live:
Woody says he doesn’t know how old his kids are because he’s spent so much time in jail.
Update: Now it’s Young Thug’s lawyer Brian Steel who may be held in contempt. This after he confronted Judge Glanville about an in-chambers ex-parte meeting with Copeland this morning over his 5th plea. Steel refuses to tell the judge how he learned of the meeting.
Just in: Judge Roland wants John Eastman disbarred for his 2020 election fraud claims and the Jan. 6 attempted insurrection.
Here's the full ruling. 128 pages.
"John Charles Eastman is ordered transferred to involuntary inactive status ... His inactive enrollment will be effective three calendar days after this order is served..."
I remember going to the first day of Eastman's bar hearing in LA back in June along with other reporters including the great @TomDreisbach. Little did we know what a marathon we were in for. 9 months later, a ruling.
A woman with an “unshakable, delusional belief that she owns or works” at LA Fitness is jailed indefinitely on a civil contempt charge, and her story is a horrifying look at mental illness and the court system.
I know I’ve got a lot of followers in Atlanta area: There is an ATL connection to this story.
The woman was fired from LA Fitness in SoCal in 2011, then was hired two years later at a gym in Atlanta using a false Social Security number. legalaffairsandtrials.com/p/judge-wants-…
The cases are different, but it's worth noting that the mentally ill woman jailed for civil contempt involving LA Fitness appears in the same courthouse where Judge Carney is releasing neo-Nazis from jail and dismissing their charges. legalaffairsandtrials.com/p/9th-circuit-…