VERY minor point: I wonder what Habba is doing there? As a general matter, lawyers do little they aren’t getting paid for. And if they are somewhere (work-related) they are generally getting paid to be there.
Is Habba just such a friend and huge supporter of Trump that she is willing to spend potential billing hours sitting in a courtroom? Did Trump pay her so handsomely that she need not work? Does she not have any other paying clients? Is she hoping her demonstrated fealty will result in an appointment in the Trump administration?
Like I said - a very minor matter. But I found it curious.
In addition to her legal duties, such as they were, Habba is a spokesperson and general cheerleader for Trump. That’s her job and she’s made some pretty good money doing it.
The usual (witch hunt, corrupt judge, etc.), but this time, reality seems to have set in. The prosecution didn’t call certain witnesses, because they would have given Trump a win. Sounds like he’s preparing for a guilty verdict.
It is, and if the defense wanted witnesses who could give Trump the win, nothing was stopping them from calling them. As we all know, it’s not the prosecution’s job to call witnesses that are favorable to the defendant. And Trump’s lawyers had all kinds of opportunity to cross-examine those that were called.
If Trump thought that some witnesses who would be favorable to his case should have been called, then he should have told his lawyers, who would have called them. I’m sure he did, and I’m equally sure that his lawyers had good reasons for not calling them.
If you print one copy then only one person will have access to it at any time and it will make it hard for the other jurors to review. If you have to print 12 copies, when talking about potentially thousands of pages of testimony and evidence, you’ve doomed some court clerk to sit in the printing room for the next 3 days, loading paper and changing ink cartridges.
These days, sure, they could give them each a laptop. But that requires entering the 21st century and this isn’t the sort of sexy legislation that brings voters to the polls.
So everyone on the jury just goes home tonight and they don’t reconvene until 9:30 Thursday morning? If they hadn’t asked for the transcripts of testimony and repeat of the judge’s instructions, would they have been able to keep deliberating all day tomorrow?
I guess they can use the break, and it makes sense to get some stuff repeated, but OTOH it seems like a waste of a day they could have put to good use.
In our county, they didn’t have one. Each judge had their own chambers directly behind their courtroom, and they kept their robes in their chambers. Sorry to be anticlimactic!
Also Californians. Mindful of wasted trees, ya know.