🍿Via Scott MacFarlane:
ALERT: Court is in session for Day 1 of $1.6 billion defamation trial of #Dominion Voting Systems vs. #FOX
No cameras in the courtroom.
No live audio feed to broadcast
I am permitted a phone in overflow room. And can post.
But noting: this court day begins with the completion of jury selection. We don’t expect opening statements til midday.
2/ Guess this is a thread… which will be hard for me to keep up with today because I’ll be on the road. But I’ll try. #ClusterFox #Dominion
MacFarlane, cont’d.:
Jury selection process is about to resume
There will be *objections* from attorneys to some of the slides that are planned to be exhibited during opening statements today. Likely ahead of the statements.
Nevertheless, we're underway with the completion of jury selection
Judge est will be a 6 WEEK trial. He admon att’ys...warning he will be diligent about staying on track & staying on sched
If there are lengthy obj made.. "They'll come out of your time" ... Judge Eric Davis warns atty’s
Judge urged media in courtroom to type quietly... to avoid "sending the wrong messages" to people in jury
Then judge said I'm not sure how you do that though
The. Typing. Is. Loud.
By approx 200 journalists restricted to laptops, not phones
4/ More:
NEW: #Dominion’s updated trial exhibit list includes 7000+ items, including dozens of emails from #RupertMurdoch and a series of messages from Sean #Hannity to Murdoch
Final item (exhibit 7,021): “#Fox and Friends” broadcast from Nov 15, 2020
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