I’m not sure if it’s because the mask hides her smirk but she seems a bit more downbeat now doesn’t she? Wonder if they’ve started her on meds? JMOI think Lori fell asleep during the end of Means argument about recorded calls.
I agree, but they may not have a choice if this continues. This is a first for us and it is way weird, but it may be the new norm for a while.
Does he bill by the hour or what?Man does this guy ever shut up. Over an hour and all he has been talking about are these stupid recordings.
He keeps repeating his arguments over and over again. The judge is being too nice, and needs to tell him, to stop beating a dead horse.
This is getting absolutely insane.
Here we go again, let's talk about the recordings for the 167th time.
MOO
And the prosecutor shot him down with "if you register your phone number as you were told repeatedly to do, the calls would not be recorded."Personally, I do think Means, if he were worth his salt, SHOULD have explicitly verified each time he visited that the recording be turned off since these are such unusual circumstances for attorney-client consultations. He claims that he verified the first day, but not on subsequent days since these visits occurred on consecutive days, but certainly under these unusual circumstances, procedures may change from day to day, so the attorney should extend the effort to make sure the conversations remain confidential.
That way, unintentional mistakes - which are more likely to happen under unusual circumstances than in usual circumstances - would not be made and he'd have a better position from which to argue that the recording was intentional and was misused.
I needed a break, Means was killing my brain cells.
I'm going to listen to this for a good laugh:
He has a legitimate point for trial or pre-trial. But what is the point for a bail reduction hearing?Just tuning in to the court proceedings.
Wow.
IMO the defense lawyer does have a good point if there were recordings made of his discussions with his client and somehow the prosecution got to look at them.
The judge said a similar system that she knows about (not this particular one) does allow online access to look at recorded jail discussions by LE, DAs, Prosecution team, etc.
That sounds like a legitimate concern. Im not sure how the judge could reconcile if that had happened. Maybe one thing she could do is to not allow any statements used in the trial from those discussions.
But even if they are never allowed in the trial, it still would have given the prosecution team an advantage to know what the defense attorney and client discussed.
IMO all jails and how they are handling the COVID crisis need to be very careful in how they are handling things because if they are not careful then more of these types of issues will come up in other trials. I am already aware of another case where the defense lawyer is complaining they cannot guarantee privacy with their client. That is a big deal and it needs to be fixed.
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