By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
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LITERARY SDNY, July 7 – It was the day for closing arguments, by the prosecutors then Josh Schulte, and Kurt Wheelock made it his business to get in earlier than usual.
Assistant US Attorney Lockard laid into Schulte as a destructive nihilist, sneaking in to get the back-up files and filing false complaints.
When Schulte's turn came he had a phrase, forensic artifacts, saying that the government's case lacked them.
He asked, if he was really the leaker, why would he have complained so loudly? Wouldn't he have tried to fly before the radar?
The Google searches? They were part of his habits, as a computer geek. (The AUSA objected, and Judge Furman sustained).
His apartment was raided, then his cell in the MCC. Sure some of the things in the notebooks were troubling. But, Schulte said, prison are bad places and he was losing it. Why not just charge him with contraband cell phone, and not espionage?
When Schulte finished, and the jury left, Judge Furman congratulated him and said depending on how things turn out, you might make a good criminal defense lawyer. Schulte laughed, and not the forced ha-ha he deployed sometimes while cross examining.
Judge Furman gave him a copy of the final jury charge, and said he'd see him the next morning at 9. So would Kurt Wheelock. More on Patreon here.
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