By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
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LITERARY SDNY, June 24 – When the Joshua Schulte trial resumed on June 24, he'd had two more days to prepare, in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn and the SCIF on the ninth floor of the courthouse.
But so had the witness, Microsoft's Patrick Leedom, in better conditions. Leedom smirking on the witness state repeated said, I disagree. The Assist US Attorney cut in with "Objection," leading nine times out of ten to "Sustained... Move it along, Mr. Schulte, or I'll have to shut you down."
Kurt Wheelock was sitting in the front row, just behind Schulte. When he'd come into the courtroom that was the only row empty. Schulte's parents were in the second row; FBI agent Michael Berger, an expert witness who would testify next, was in the gallery listening to Leedom.
Schulte had two laptops along with the monitor that came with rostrum. He had Post-It notes from his stand-by counsel and, it seemed to Kurt, a few white or grey hairs in his beard. His hands were thin, and his nails were not cut short. When he laughed, it sounded forced: Ha. Ha.
In the back from of the jury box, one of the alternate jurors was outright sleeping. Kurt kept wondering if Judge Furman would notice and say nothing. How could his man deliberated, if he hadn't heard all the testimony? Maybe it wouldn't come to that. But maybe it would. More on Patreon here.
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