COURTROOM CONTRASTS: Now, an hour before he presides over #CIA#Vault7 leaks case of Joshua Schulte, @sdnylive Judge Furman is dealing with something more mundane: Baldor Foods winning default judgment over Hale & Hearty Soups LCC. Inner City Press will live tweet
Judge Furman: Would you like me to wait until Monday to enter this?
Baldor Specialty Foods counsel: That would result in an additional attorney's fee.
Judge Furman: $19,000 seems a little bit high for this. I reviewed your billing records and they seem reasonable
Baldor's counsel: We had to look into PACA and PACA trusts.
[Inner City Press has covered these PACA suits, including on... Bronx Avocado: innercitypress.com/sdny136woodspa…
Baldor's: We had to pay for Federal Express.
Judge Furman: I'm prepared to grant the motion, I'll hold off until Monday. Had Hale & Hearty appeared? [Pause] No. Anything else Ms. Shea? Adjourned. #FromSoupToNuts
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OK - now at Josh Schulte post-conviction conference. Two US Marshals, two stand-by counsel (for now), and Inner City Press. Will live tweet, thread below
All rise!
Judge Furman: Mr. Denton can't join us? Let's take up Mr Schulte's representation.
AUSA: He needs to be pro se or not pro se.
Judge: Rule 29 pro se, then not.
Judge Furman: I'm sure there's a standard reverse-Faretta allocution, but have you discussed all this with stand by counsel?
Schulte: I have.
Judge: Any alcohol or drugs in the last 48 hours?
Schulte: None.
Ok - now at Richard Rosario v NYC after he spent 20 years in prison fir Bronx murder on 6/19/96 when 13 people swear he was in Florida. Inner City Press is covering the trial innercitypress.com/sdny76schofiel… & will li e tweet, thread below
Rosario's lawyer, to 1 of 13, Ms Reyes: Did the NYPD ever reach out to you?
NYPD's counsel: Objection!
Judge: Overruled.
Cross.
NYC lawyer: Good morning, Ms Ruiz. Did you ever call the police?
Ruiz: No.
NYC lawyer: You never testified in the 1998 murder trial?
Ruiz: I did not.
NYC lawyer: People smoke pot in your building then, right?
Ruiz: It was a social thing that people did.
OK - Legal day of Inner City Press starts now in NYS Criminal Court, NY v. Cruciani, dirty doc w/ taxpayer funded lawyer in @SDNYLIVE, got affidavit unsealed innercitypress.com/sdny72lcronanc… but... Cruciani here in blue suit. Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below
Jury entering!
Judge: Jurors, you will now here closing arguments.
Cruciani's lawyer: The magic of a criminal trial is we have people who don't want to be here, to hear accusations against a member of the community. [Note: Cruciani has 3 homes, in PA, NJ...]
Cruciani's lawyer is turning to address jurors who are sitting in the gallery under COVID protocols. The lights hanging from the ceiling blocks the view of the "In God We Trust" behind the bench.
OK - now in #RKelly "associate" Donnell Russell's trial for allegedly calling in gun threat to Neuehouse screening of Surviving R. Kelly, closing arguments. Inner City Press will live tweet them, thread below
Jury entering!
Judge Gardephe: Now the closing argument of the govdernment.
Assistant US Attorney Davis: It is time to hold the defendant accountable for what he did. Not in dispute is that the defendant wanted to stop the screening that night
[US plays audio of Don Russell's "public interview" admitting he was on the phone all day with Neuehouse].
AUSA Davis: It is only not in dispute that the defendant was in contact all day with Kash Jones. And his home address in Chicago, not in dispute.
OK- now in multi-defendant drug case US v Haxhaj, et al, gallery half full, lady with United Nations bag. Inner City Press is covering the case innercitypress.com/sdny81afaillah… and will live tweet, threadette below
Judge criticizes Murray Richman's associate for Richman's non presence. One defense lawyer is in the gallery with a wireless mic
One defendant says he doesn't have a copy of the superseding indictment. Now copies are passed to the defendants shackled in jury box; Marshals says they can take the copies with them back to jail
Judge Preska: Good morning! Sorry to start late, I had a sentencing. I suggest we do the protective order things at the end, and we'll seal it. Have you spoken about the impeachment issue?
Counsel: We were unable to reach agreement.
Counsel: Impeachment is not limited to initial disclosures but applies equally to pre-trial disclosures. By and large, impeachment material was produced.
Howard Cooper: I had laptop problems... This is a first for me, to have a line in a confidential letter cited