Trials

Another healthcare not guilty.  This one was before Judge Williams. Defense lawyers were Franklin Monsour and Adam Fels. Another example of why we need more trials.  Here's the Herald article about the verdict.

Meantime, in SDNY, the district judge is really hurting the defense in the Diddy trial. The latest ruling was dumping an African-American juror over strenuous defense objection. Via TMZ:

Friday, Diddy's attorney Xavier Donaldson stood up and said the court was taking a big step backward by getting rid of a juror of color ... asking the judge to bring him back into the court to give him the chance to explain.

During the jury selection phase, Juror No. 6 revealed he was a 41-year-old Black Hispanic man who works for the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. One of the main reasons the defense said they didn't want him dismissed is because he's one of the few Black jurors.

And shortly after that juror was dismissed, another juror ended up in the hot seat, according to TMZ:

Diddy's trial is on the verge of another jury shakeup due to one of them getting a strange text message that's left the judge with concerns this juror is talking about the case outside of court.
Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ the juror alerted the court on Friday about the text message, from a phone number he didn't recognize, asking him if HE was Juror No. 6 -- who'd already been in the news as someone Judge Arun Subramanian might dismiss.
We're told this other juror wanted the judge to know about the mystery text and, indeed, Judge Subramanian did have lots of questions for him about the message and the phone number from which it came.
Our sources say, although the juror said he didn't recognize the phone number ... the judge has concerns he might be discussing the trial with people who are NOT on the jury -- which, obviously, would be a major violation of the judge's instructions.