While waiting for US v. Avenatti charging conference, here is UN press briefing from from which Inner City Press is banned, today from briefing by incoming UN Security Council president. Aim to live tweet below the Q&A of those the UN *does* let in 1/x
Even as of 1:12 pm Feb 1, the most recent UNSC "Program of Work" on the UN's website is from January, that of @NorwayUN's @Mona_Juul, a month of failure and coups and censorship. And February? First question goes to UN Censorship Alliance, UNCA 2/x
New: Corporate wire, essentially high-frequency trading platform with news now behind a platform, asks if Lavrov will deign to come to NY this month. No. (But look who's going to the #GenocideGames in Beijing) 4/x
Now: France 24 correspondent is allowed to Zoom (or WebEx) in from home with ponderous question. So Inner City Press could easily have been given access to this presser, as it has at IMF - it's a choice, the UN is a place of censorship for dictators (like Guterres)
Next is another WebExed in question, on Afghanistan. Nebenzia says he didn't understand most of the question, but "I have answers... We urge Taliban to fight terrorism and drug trafficking." Could by 1980 all over again. #OlympicBoycotts
February's UNSC "Program of Work" is still not up on the UN's website - fail - but Inner City Press is tweeting this screen shot of it - ironically, while all Presidencies including US includes "Letters of Ukraine and Russia" as footnote, Russia doesn't.
Now the Program of Work press conference Inner City Press was banned from is over. There were no questions about the countries in Africa off which the UN of Guterres makes most of the money that it wastes - total failure and censorship. Story coming.
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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