I mean, how else do you explain Michael Avenatti and Sarah Palin chatting in the SDNY cafeteria during a break in their trials? From someone who saw it and tweeted about it:
An exchange in the SDNY cafeteria...
Michael Avenatti, as Palin walks by:
"Ms Palin, how are you?" Avenatti told her "good luck" several times.
At end of their encounter, he said good luck again, to which she said
"You too, best of everything."
Meantime, the jury had to be Allen charged today in the Avenatti trial. As you can imagine, I’m strongly against Allen charges. If a jury can’t reach a verdict, that should be it. And the government should only get one shot to convict a defendant. None of this retrial madness.
Avenatti started his closing this way:
"When my father was a teenager, he sold hotdogs at a ballpark." The judge sustained an objection but I’m not sure why.
And he ended this way:
"I will leave you with this: I'm Italian. I like Italian food...The case that the government is attempting to feed you has a giant cockroach in the middle of the plate. Would you eat that dish, or would you send it back? I submit that you would send it back."
So much for that one brave recalcitrant juror.
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Guessing here but unless there was evidence about His enjoyment of hot dogs it was facts not in evidence.
ReplyDeleteGood judges allow a bit of advocacy at the beginning and end of closings. But whatever.
And...Guilty.
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Isn't all of client (and all of trial) advocacy?
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