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Trial Closing Mukasey Notes Kim Brady Not
in Handcuffs As Team Trevor Beams
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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LITERARY SDNY,
Oct 14 – When after nine days
the Trevor Milton trial
resumed, it went right into
closing arguments. AUSA Jordan
Estes called Trevor Milton a
stone con man, Googling Can
you drink water from a
hydrogen fuel cell before he
tweeted about a water fountain
in the truck's
cab. Kurt Wheelock
was live tweeting it, back on
the case.
In the front row
of the courtroom gallery, Team
Trevor grimaced at Estes'
closing, but perked up when
Milton's recovered lawyer
Mukasey took to the podium. He
had on large white reading
glasses, taking them on and
off to read exhibits.
He mocked
the idea of a prosecution by
Tweets. He called Mark Russell
and Kim Brady "Boy Scouts" and
said of course they would have
asked if they say something
wrong. (Later he said, you
don't see THEM in handcuffs.
And you didn't).
The
rebuttal was by AUSA Matthew
Podolosky; he used an analogy
of a schoolboy lying that he'd
gotten an A. That he aspired
to the grade, or had a plan,
didn't make it any less of a
lie.
Team Trevor
looked on angrily, it
seemed. Judge
Ramos told the jurors to
return on Friday for the legal
instructions then to begin
deliberating.
Some predicted a
fast verdict - "it just
depends on what you believe" -
and others predicted it
spreading into the next week.
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