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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMerchan just cleared the courtroom.
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Kaitlan Collins
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WOW. The judge is clearing the courtroom after dressing down Robert Costello for rolling his eyes and muttering about his rulings. The press is pushing back at this. Court officials are yelling.
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WOW. The judge is clearing the courtroom after dressing down Robert Costello for rolling his eyes and muttering about his rulings. The press is pushing back at this. Court officials are yelling.
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Merchan just cleared the courtroom. (Original Post)
RandySF
May 20
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Irish_Dem
(49,805 posts)1. Which officials are yelling?
senseandsensibility
(17,429 posts)2. How is the press pushing back and against whom?
Confusing.
Wednesdays
(17,624 posts)3. Press is back in the courtroom.
The judge just cleared the courtroom long enough to read the riot act to Costello.
Torchlight
(3,588 posts)4. Another day of an unprepared, incompetent defense could see
any remaining sympathetic jurors bail on him.
Traurigkeit
(802 posts)12. "sympathetic jurors" Easier to find a chicken with incisors
Tetrachloride
(7,988 posts)5. who is Robert Costello
InstantGratification
(187 posts)7. A witness currently testifying in this trial
I don't believe he was ever officially a lawyer for Trump or Cohen, but he had close ties to Trump's legal team and gave informal legal advice to Cohen around the time Cohen was being investigated for the crimes for which he was eventually convicted. Around 2018, iir
LiberalFighter
(51,943 posts)8. He is an attorney. He looks like a pimp.
Tetrachloride
(7,988 posts)10. now im interested. :))
Jerry2144
(2,169 posts)6. I did something like that once. Cleared a classroom
I shouldnt have had Taco Bell for lunch
AllaN01Bear
(19,410 posts)9. i can just imagine this in my head and its the judges right to do so.
peppertree
(21,914 posts)11. Scolded and spanked like the overgrown child he is
Just like the defendunce.