faefrost
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I am not blaming anyone. I was just stating fact. I am not aware of Jb violating a court order. Is there something wrong with the Judge ordering Tes to provide the documents in a secure environment?
You seem to have a mistaken impression of what is meant by "a secure environment".
The secure environment is to protect the property and record owners rights and privacy, not the defense. It is to insure that the entirety of the records in question remain fully under TES's control and are not released, copied or publicized in any manner without their permission or without a judge specifically ordering it done. The records in question are controlled and stored by the TES attorneys office, hence MN's office is the secure environment. It remains secure so long as TES's agents in this manner, MN and his staff, can maintain observation and security of the documents.
Some real apparent misconceptions you have regarding what the defense has been granted or must be provided.
- They can view the records. They can dig through the boxes to read them. That's it. Nothing more.
- They have no expectation of privacy in this regard. None whatsoever. The privacy assumption is on the part of TES in this case. So in order to maintain TES's privacy all interactions by the defense team must be observed.
- They have no expectation of a comfortable private or quiet spot to view the records. If they so wished TES could make them dig through the filing cabinet in the hallway. Putting the records in a box, in a quiet room, on a table with chairs are all courtesy. Nothing more. All TES has to provide is physical and observed access to the records, although a reasonable request of enough light to read them by would probably be granted. Anything beyond that is a reflection of MN's personal professionalism in the face of ongoing obnoxiousness. In many cases lawyers doing such secured records searchs have to go dig through the unaircondidtioned document storage warehouses that most companies and lawyers use.
- It's quite possible that MN did call the media on CM and JB. he has no reason not to. It is certainly in no way a violation of the judges order, and I can see where it would be to his benefit to have an independent witness in the event of trouble if CM and JB showed up to view documents unannonced in an attempt to intimidate his staff. (gee we couldn't possibly imagine CM attempting to intimidate staff to give him what he wants, could we?). MN could certainly alert the media to something interesting going on at his office, so long as he doesn't let them in the door.