By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
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LITERARY SDNY, July 8 – The night between the closing arguments and Judge Furman's legal instructions to the jury, Kurt Wheelock went back over his live-tweeted transcripts of the trial and something jumped out, here.
Schulte had asked, on cross, if the witness was aware that Stuxnet was all over DEVLAN.
The Assistant US Attorney had immediately objected and a sidebar, complete with white noise, ensued. When they came back, no more Stuxnet. Objection sustained.
Kurt had been at the UN when Stuxnet attacked Iran's nuclear facilities and then the world at large. High ranking US officials had spoken about it, strongly implying it was theirs. They had never been charged under the Espionage Act. (And of course there was Patraeus and the tip of his spear.)
But when was Stuxnet still hanging around on DEVLAN in 2016 when whoever took the snapshot took it?
Kurt couldn't help thinking of COVID 19, too. In the courthouse of the SDNY, for this trial in July 2022, N-95 masks were still required, and two jurors had already been lost to COVID.
If the deliberations went long, how many more might be lost? Might another mistrial loom?
Kurt prepared, to live tweet the legal instructions and any questions the jurors might get out, and for beyond. More on Patreon here.
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