Banned Inner City Press has asked in writing, "What conflict of interest rules apply to UN official Mark Carney, given his positions with Brookfield, and it seems PIMCO and Stripe?
Inner City Press has asked, "what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on that Mozambique’s opposition Renamo has demanded that parliament hold an session to discuss the presence of foreign forces fighting armed groups in the Cabo Delgado province?
Inner City Press has asked, "Also, as with Angolo / Dos Santos, on which you have not answer, disclose any and all assistance to Guterres' term(s) as UNSG provided by Mozambique or its governmental leaders."
Banned Inner City Press asked, "On UN retaliating against whistleblowers, what is SG Guterres' response to statements by Emma Reilly on steps to fire her by end of August, under a UN claim that whether names of Uighur dissidents were given to China is irrelevant?
Banned Inner City Press this morning in writing asked @UN_Spokesperson "what are the comments & actions if any of SG Guterres on that rebels from Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray have captured the historic town of Lalibela." Nada - #TodaysUNisUseless
So @UN_Spokesperson@StephDujarric ends by lying that there are no more questions on his phone - Inner City Press has emailed him and @MelissaFleming this morning questions on Haiti, Emma Reilly, Mozambique, conflicts of interest - no answers. #UNaccountable.
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All rise!
Judge Subramanian: Let's try to get through these issues efficiently as we have the jurors waiting... We have a letter from a juror that we will make Court Exhibit 1. On the videos, when will they be offered into evidence?
AUSA Johnson: This afternoon
Judge Subramanian: This is about evidence that is coming into the case. The public has a right to know what is happening at trial. I don't see how we would navigate that concern. There's a potential impact on the jurors of signaling some evidence requires sealing
OK - now US v Sean Combs final jury selection, peremptory challenges - Inner City Press is covering the case (book: amazon.com/dp/B0DHP7YF19
and will live tweet, thread below x.com/innercitypress…
All rise!
Judge Subramanian: Anything before peremptory challenges?
Assistant US Attorney: Juror 295 should be excluded based on her email to the jury office, personal safety.
Judge: She's out.
AUSA: And Juror 146 has a lawsuit against the City, undisclosed
Combs' lawyer Agnifilo: OK, but what about Juror 131, who worked at Legal Aid?
Judge: That's different. 146 is out, but 131 is still in. I propose we bring in on Monday the 12, the six alternates - and the three remaining. Or should we do the strikes on Monday?
All rise!
AUSA: We propose to do the peremptory challenges not today but on Friday morning, in case some of the jurors come up with new reasons not to be on the jury before then.
Judge Subramian: Sounds fine.
Combs' Agnifilo: We want the HBO juror, 29, out
Combs' Agnifilo: Teny Geragos of our team was on emails with the production company of the HBO documentary. People were paid -
Judge: Will the documentary come up at trial?
Agnifilo: I believe so.
Judge: AUSA, we didn't ask her about her pay
All rise!
Judge Subramanian: Good morning. Everyone in the room has already filled out a questionnaire about the case. I will be asking you additional questions - some may be about topics difficult to discuss with strangers. Each side has peremptory challenges
Judge: You have received a list of questions. You will be escorted to Courtroom 26B, then brought one by one back here into Courtroom 26A... You will be shown a list of people and places. If you are not selected, thank you for your service. OK, let's begin
All rise!
Judge Subramanian: I have composed a list of prospective jurors who, based in their questionnaire answers, I don't proposed to do individual Q&A with. The list of people and place is so long, I though it was an appendix to Lord of the Rings
[laughter]
Assistant US Attorney: Why don't we have the next juror in line review the binder with court staff, to save that time?
Judge: OK
AUSA: We have given two copies of the binder to your staff.
Judge Subramanian: I assume we'll soon get the thumbs up jurors are ready
All rise!
Judge Subramanian: So we have a slew of motions, we'll go through them, then other issues the parties would like to address. Let's start with summary charts at Docket 203 - have you worked that out to moot it?
AUSA: We'll give drafts early
Comb's lawyer Alexandra Shapiro: We will raise issues about specific charts.
Judge: I agree, I'll need to look at them one by one, on a line item basis. So 203 is denied as moot. Now 205, Doctor Hughes. Granted in part and denied in part. Coercive control is out