| Abusive Doctor Hadden Convicted But
Dodged Remand Now More Victims Write For Feb
1
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Video Photo
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 30 – Columbia University
doctor Robert A. Hadden was
hit on September 9, 2020 with
a Federal indictment charging
that "sexually abused dozens
of female patients, including
multiple minors, under the
guise of conducting purported
gynecological and obstetric
examinations."
The case was
assigned to U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Richard M. Berman, who handled
the case of Jeffrey Epstein
until he died in the
Metropolitan Correctional
Center. Epstein
came up during the bail
argument, which Hadden won.
Inner City Press live tweeted
it.
On January 23,
2023, just after Hadden was
found guilty, there was an
argument about whether to
immediately remand him to
prison. Victims said yes, the
US argued for it; Federal
Defenders said no. Judge
Berman set a hearing for
February 1 and allowed Hadden
to leave, telling him to come
up with a Plan B. Video of
exit here.
Inner City Press live tweeted
here:
Judge Berman:
Hearing Feb 1 at noon. AUSA:
We urge him detained until
then. Judge Berman: See you
February 1.
On January 30,
the US Attonrey Office filed
on more victims' statements:
Victim 69 writing that Hadden
"continues to live free, less
than 15 minutes from me, and
that is both threatening and
distressing to me." Victim 74
wrotes, "He knows he may be
getting 80 years, and I
strongly believe he's going to
run."
On January
9, 2023, the first day of the
trial, a witness testified
that Hadden, with a beard,
licked her three or four
times.
The Assistant US
Attorney asked her if she said
anything to Hadden?
She: No.
AUSA: Why not?
Hadden's lawyer:
Objection!
Judge Berman:
Overruled.
She: I was
shocked.
It emerged she
got divorced - again, objected
to be Hadden -- and thereafter
used only female OB/GYNs.
Represented by
lawyer DiPietro, she has a
money judgment coming. She has
not yet received it, but the
verdict in this case will not
impact it, she said.
The only question
on cross examination was
whether she continued to live
in New York.
Later on
January 9, the US Attorney's
Office wrote to Judge Berman,
"in a surprising turns of
events today, after much
defense briefing about how the
defendant's state guilty plea
was allegedly coerced, the
defendant has conceded that he
pled guilty because he is in
fact guilty of sexual
assaulting and abusing not
just two but many patients
(Trial Tr. at 42).
But still the
trial went on...
On the evening of
January 23, after the closing
arguments, Hadden's Federal
Defenders requested a curative
instruction about the
Assistant US Attorney telling
the jury Hadden's state guilty
plea had not covered four
victims in this Federal case.
The Office shot back that the
"coverage provision" of the
state plea was only about
state immunity, it was not a
guilty plea as to those
identified as Emily Anderson,
Sara Stein, Melissa Taylor or
Kate Evans. Watch this site.
Back on
July 14, 2021 Judge Berman
docketed a letter the US had
filed, with a full paragraph
redacted, that it will seek a
superseding indictment on
another count of enticement,
regarding an adult Victim-6.
Letter on Inner City Press'
DocumentCloud here.
On August
2, 2021 Hadden's publicly
funded (for now) counsel filed
a series of motions, with
redactions, citing Evelyn Yang
and request dismissal of the
case. It mentioned Evelyn
Yang's interview then redacts
a two line sentence. Then,
"Andrew Yang public a
statement, this media
attention led to outrage
regarding the 'lenient'
sentence Mr. Hadden had
received in the DANY
Prosecution." Yes.
On December 15,
2021, Judge Berman held a
proceeding and Inner City
Press live tweeted it here
(podcast here)
Jump cut forward
a year to December 14, 2022,
the pre-trial conference
before the January 4, 2023
(one day?) jury selection -
Inner City Press was in the
courtroom, threadette:
Hadden's lawyer
says they commit that in front
of the jury they will not
question the motives of the
prosecution.
Hadden plans to
call a Dr Berg as his OB-GYN
expert. Jury will not get the
"speaking" portion of the
indictment.
Asst US Attorney:
We may want some victim to
testify not under their full
names [like in US v Ghislaine
Maxwell trial a year ago]
On December 22,
Judge Berman held another
conference and ruled: "1-
defense motion to preclude
generalized expert testimony
of Dr. Eddleman is denied; 2-
defense motion to preclude
testimony and evidence re:
fibroid procedure Victim-1 is
denied in part and granted in
part; 3- defense motion to
strike all surplusage from S2
Indictment is denied as moot;
4- defense motion to preclude
impact evidence/testimony is
denied; 5- defense motion to
preclude introduction of prior
consistent statements is
denied; 6- defense motion to
preclude the 911 call from 3rd
party is denied; 7- defense
motion to preclude patient
witnesses from being referred
to as victims, minor victims
or survivors is denied in part
and granted in part; The Court
will schedule a conference for
next week to address other
outstanding motions."
On December 29,
2022 Judge Berman held a final
final pre-trial conference,
Inner City Press live tweeted
here:
On January 1,
2023, the US filed: "The
Government respectfully
submits this letter seeking
permission to file
supplemental motions regarding
the defendant’s proposed
exhibits and witnesses, which
the Government received from
the defense on December 21,
2022, after the parties’
motions in limine had been
submitted to the Court. The
Government has conferred with
the defense about its proposed
witnesses and exhibits in an
attempt to obviate or narrow
any motion, and the defense
has indicated it opposes the
Government’s position on each
of the motions the Government
intends to file. The
Government would like to
advise the Court of its
challenges to the defendant’s
exhibits and witnesses in
advance of the parties’
opening statements, so that
jury addresses may proceed in
an orderly fashion. By way of
background, the defendant’s
proposed exhibits include
highly graphic videos and
photographs of a
non-testifying doctor
performing vaginal, anal, and
breast exams on an actual
person, in addition to other
unduly prejudicial, confusing,
misleading, and irrelevant
exhibits." Full letter on
Patreon here.
On January 3,
2023, Hadden's Federal
Defender filed seeking to
exclude government expert
witness Dr. Lisa Rocchio. In
the docket, concerning Dr.
Rocchio as witness, is Judge
Lewis A. Kaplan's October 4,
2022 order permitting much of
her testimony in the Rapp v.
Spacey trial he presided over
(and that Inner City Press
covered, and published a booklet
about).
Inner City Press
will be similarly covering
this Hadden trial. Watch this
site.
Back on June 13,
2022, when Hadden was
arraigned on a superseding
indictment, in preparation of
the September 12, 2022 trial.
Inner City Press live tweeted
it here
The case is
US v. Hadden, 20-cr-468
(Berman).
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