So a quick rundown of the Kleiman v. Wright trial today: it was cross-examination of Ira Kleiman all day.
Wright's attorneys went through a few topics, including Dave Kleiman's declining health, his personal finances (which were in very bad shape), and Ira's use of the devices he'd found in Dave's house
Wright's attorney showed jurors a slew of emails from 2008 before the bitcoin white paper was released in Oct in which Dave Kleiman told Wright and others that he was not doing well health-wise and was having trouble getting work done
There was also an email from Craig to Dave that made it seem like the white paper was mainly done and asking Dave to look for any "glaring errors."
Ira testified that his brother was not much of a saver and that he left only debts when he died. In an email to Craig in Feb 2014, he said: "Knowing my brother, if there was more than $1000 in the account he would have sold it."
Dave had apparently borrowed against his house and owed more than $560k. He owed more than $17k to the IRS.
In a June 2015 letter to the Treasury Dept, Ira's attorney said Ira had found no indication in Dave's belongings of any bitcoins or business dealings with Wright.
From the letter: "The only indications that he would have of any agreements between David and Dr. Wright or W&K LLC would have been transmitted to him by Dr. Wright." Wright was the only source, the attorney said.
Finally, at the end of the day, the focus was on the physical devices found at Dave's home. In a Feb 2014 email to Wright, Ira said he was "nervous about making mistakes" and admitted he might have already by throwing out some papers and drives he couldn't access.
But he continued to use the hard drives through 2018, even after he had filed the lawsuit against Wright. Ira said he never touched Dave's files, but he simply added his personal files.
Cross examination of Ira isn't done -- there's about an hour left that the attorneys will finish up tomorrow morning.
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This juror, who will remain anonymous, told me that all 10 jurors agreed early on that Craig Wright was liable for some of the IP moved from W&K to his own entities.
But they were split 8-2 in Wright's favor with regard to the bitcoins issue. Most did not believe Dave Kleiman was involved in developing or mining bitcoins.
We have a verdict. Or a hung jury. We've got something at least. Back in the courtroom, waiting for everyone to get here and figure out what's going on.
It's a verdict. Going to bring the jury in in a minute.
Before bringing in the jurors, Judge Bloom is again commending the attorneys who provided "superb representation" to their clients.
We've got a note from the jury. They want the "simple definition of unjust enrichment." That's in regards to questions 17-19 of the verdict form, so if they're going in order maybe they're getting close?
They specifically want the definition of the word "conferred" as it applies to unjust enrichment.
Good morning! Back in the courthouse for Kleiman v. Wright. We started a little early today and are planning to go late, as the parties try to wrap this up to hand the case to the jury tomorrow. Dr. Ami Klin, Wright's autism expert, is still being cross-examined on the stand.
Klin is saying that Wright is "overly literal." Also apparently Wright's favorite book is the OED.
We're on a 10-minute break, and now the attorneys are fighting over whether the plaintiffs can ask Klin to comment on some of the evidence in this case, namely emails in which Wright refers to Dave Kleiman as his business partner.
Dr. Ami Klin of the Marcus Autism Center in Georgia is on the stand now in Kleiman v. Wright, discussing his work in the autism field and his extensive evaluation of Craig Wright.
He said individuals with autism who also have high intellect often go undiagnosed, especially someone like Wright, who was in school 40 years ago, when people didn't know much about autism.
Klin said he was approached by Wright’s attorneys to evaluate Wright. He told them he doesn’t do expert witness work very frequently and that his opinion would go where the evidence went and would not just serve the case.
Back in the courtroom for Kleiman v. Wright. A doctor has been going through Dave Kleiman's medical records, explaining his medical issues. There were a lot. Kleiman had really bad pressure ulcers (aka bed sores) and couldn't sit or lay down for any extended period of time.
There were bacterial infections, hospitalizations. He was on painkillers. The reason this is being presented is that Wright has argued that Kleiman was too sick to have done any meaningful work on bitcoin.
In the records, nurses recorded that he was on the computer a lot and that he didn't elaborate on what he was doing, just said he was doing work. They also recorded that he watched movies on the laptop.