There are questions regarding the conduct of the defence in acceding to Baraitser's shenanigans Archived Message
Posted by sashimi on September 28, 2020, 11:41 am, in reply to "Re: Craig Murray: Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 18"
(quote) We then moved on to the next leg of this very peculiar procedure, in which "case management" always trumps justice, with another defence evidence statement of which an agreed "gist" is simply read into the record, with no cross-examination. Under this procedure, which Baraitser expressly initiated to save time, where the defence will agree, witness statements are whittled down simply to those facts which are uncontested, and a "gist" or edit of that edit is read out, with the whole redacted statement entered into the court record. The defence have allowed themselves to be too easily browbeaten into submission on all of this "time saving", which is of course pursued by the judge and the US government in the interests of having as little embarrassing information aired in public as possible, and closing down the hearing quickly. One consequence of the rather hangdog defence approach to this is that, after the first very effective reading of key passages from el-Masri's evidence, subsequent "gists" read into the record have been raced through, as though the defence realise this evidence has been reduced to a pointless formality, with no expression or weight in the reading and at a speed that far exceeds my ability to take an accurate note. (/quote)
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