| Closing Arguments
After Trial of Man For Groping
on Canal Street and Worse on 7th
Ave
by
Matthew & Russell Lee, Patreon Substack
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CENTRE STREET,
Dec 15 – A man has been
on trial for weeks in 111
Centre Street for two
incidents of forcible touching
of intimate parts. One on
Canal Street, Inner City Press
previously covered.
On December 15 in
closing arguments, the ADA
described in detail the second
attack, of a woman returning
to Manhattan from a date in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn,
assaulted in a scaffolding
tunnel.
The
defense lawyer repeatedly
objected during the
prosecutor's summation and was
outright denied most of the
time. In the others, Justice
Ann D. Thompson suggested to
the ADA how to
rephrase.
While the
defense lawyer had suggested
his client was framed, the
prosecutor urged the jury to
take note that the defendant
is hardly a celebrity, and is
not being sued for money. What
motive, she asked, did these
two women who have both moved
out of NYC have to come back
via train and plane and
subject themselves to
cross-examination?
Inner City
Press found itself wondering:
why did the prosecutor's
office not publicize this case
as it does others, from
torture for a Bitcoin password
to various subway platform
pushings and slashings? We
hope to have more on this.
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