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    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"

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    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.
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