| Before CIA Leaks Trial Joshua
Schulte's Lawyer Is Missing Like His Civil
Case v AG on PACER
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 24 – Ten days before the
trial of accused CIA leaker
Joshua Schulte, set to begin
February 3, a final pre trial
conference on January 24
showed continuing disputes
about the secrecy and sealing
of evidence and witnesses.
An
issue that arose was Schulte's
letters complaining that his
assigned counsel James M.
Branden is not providing
assistance of counsel. Now in
the docket is a letter from
Branden, dated January 24,
stating that becuase of a
hearing in White Plains he
could not attend the final
pre-trial conference for
Schulte. Something is very
wrong with this. And this:
A basis
PACER search by Inner City
Press finds that Schulte in
April 2019 filed a civil
lawsuit against the US
Attorney General. There is a
docket number: 19-cv-3346.
Photo here.
But even
on the SDNY Press Room PACER
terminal when Inner City Press
clicked on the Complaint, it
replied, "You do not have
permission to view this
document." So who does? And is
this a public court system? We
will have more on this.
Assistant US Attorney Matthew
Laroche argued that while
prospective jurors will be
shown witnesses real names, it
will only by in hard copy and
thereafter some 17 of them
will be referred to by
pseudonyms.
Schulte's
lawyer Sabrina Shroff, still
with the Federal Defenders for
purposes of this case,
insisted on calling these
"fake names," and complained
about the difficulties imposed
in conducting basic research
on potential witnesses.
US Attorney for
the Southern District of New
York Geoffrey S. Berman is
asking to have the public
excluded from the courtroom
during the testimony of
several of these CIA
witnesses: ten called by the
prosecution, and seven the
defense seeks to call.
On January 21,
SDNY District Judge Paul A.
Crotty scheduled a public
hearing on US Attorney
Berman's request, to be held
on January 27 at 2 pm.
Opposition to sealing has
already been filed, see Inner
City Press filing into the
docket on Big Cases Bot, here.
Watch this site. The case is US
v. Schulte, 17-cr-548
(Crotty).
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