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Milton Trial Jury Is Picked, 1 Telsa
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By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 12 –
The awaited trial of Nikola
founder Trevor Milton for wire
and securities fraud began, in
its way, on September 12 with
jury selection.
Inner City Press was there. Thread:
Now in Courtroom
318 of 40 Foley Square, the
lawyer mill around, waiting
for pool of prospective
jurors. Standing at railing is
Milton, whispering with two...
By noon,
we're only on the 2d
prospective juror, who says
he's read an article about
Nikola. Judge Ramos says, Why
don't you come up and we'll
speak to you at sidebar
(non-public). Milton's lawyers
go up; he remains at defense
table.
Long sidebar is
over. Mukasey returns to
defense table and whispers
with Trevor. No decision is
reached - Judge Ramos moves on
to prospective juror #3, who
says she works at Capital One
Bank where she was
investigated, questioned 30
times
Capital One
prospective juror clarifies
that she is a teller who got
robbed and so was questioned
30 times in 2020, height of
COVID bank robbery
apparently.
Judge Ramos:
Could you be fair? Prospective
Juror 3: Yes. This could take
a while...
Prospective Juror
4 says she can't read the
small type of the jury
questionnaire. Judge Ramos
asks someone to go up and get
his extra pair of magnifying /
reading glasses.
Prospective
Juror 5 has read about Nikola
- another long sidebar begins.
Past 3 pm,
Prospective Jurors 25 and 26
have are dismissed, the latter
for overly pro-police
sentiment. Yet more whispered
sidebars, Marc Mukasey and
Torrey Young go up, Milton at
defense table looking around
the courtroom.
Update: A
prospective juror with a
relative who has accepted a
job at Tesla is interviewed at
sidebar - and dismissed.
Now questioning
of prospective jurors gets
more personal. There's a
65 year old woman who lived in
Mount Vernon, three brothers
in the Army. Now a woman on
the Upper West Side whose 24
year old son lives at home, "I
don't know what he does."
Milton is
taking notes on the
prospective jurors' answers
Now a woman who lives in
Yonkers,4 sons, one of whom is
a truck driver. She likes
church and The Price is Right.
Next: 44
year old AP History teacher
from Brewster NY. Likes
"Sixties, Seventies channels
We're getting
there. Last prospective juror,
when asked about social media
use, says she has Facebook but
hasn't logged in for 3 years.
Now lawyers have
10 minutes for peremptory
challenges. Milton is huddling
with his lawyers.
It's done:
sixteen jurors (12 "real"
jurors, 4 alternates who might
deliberate) have been
selected. Story on Patreon
with more soon
The
case is US v.
Milton,
21-cr-478
(Ramos)
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