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RandySF

(60,757 posts)
Mon May 20, 2024, 04:11 PM May 20

Merchan just cleared the courtroom.







Kaitlan Collins
@kaitlancollins
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 OP
Which officials are yelling? Irish_Dem May 20 #1
How is the press pushing back and against whom? senseandsensibility May 20 #2
Press is back in the courtroom. Wednesdays May 20 #3
Another day of an unprepared, incompetent defense could see Torchlight May 20 #4
"sympathetic jurors" Easier to find a chicken with incisors Traurigkeit May 20 #12
who is Robert Costello Tetrachloride May 20 #5
A witness currently testifying in this trial InstantGratification May 20 #7
He is an attorney. He looks like a pimp. LiberalFighter May 20 #8
now im interested. :)) Tetrachloride May 20 #10
I did something like that once. Cleared a classroom Jerry2144 May 20 #6
i can just imagine this in my head and its the judges right to do so. AllaN01Bear May 20 #9
Scolded and spanked like the overgrown child he is peppertree May 20 #11

Wednesdays

(17,624 posts)
3. Press is back in the courtroom.
Mon May 20, 2024, 04:25 PM
May 20

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
Mon May 20, 2024, 04:32 PM
May 20

any remaining sympathetic jurors bail on him.

7. A witness currently testifying in this trial
Mon May 20, 2024, 05:25 PM
May 20

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

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