🍿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
5/ More:
Other items listed on #Dominion’s updates trial exhibit list:
Emails received by Dominion on that read “You evil motherf****”, “Justice doesn’t need witnesses”, “Gitmo soon for you and your friends!!”
1st several items listed on newly-filed updated trial exhibit list incl Lou Dobbs show transcripts, Dobbs tweets, “Justice w Jeanine” transcript & social posts & video of “Sunday Morning Futures w Maria Bartiromo” videos & transcript.
Jury selection is rattling along at a decent clip
6/ More:
There will be a jury of 12
And 12 alternates
Huge jury box... 24 seats in the box. Tall, chocolate brown leather chairs
Judge: "We have the 12"
Yes.. they're selecting *12 alternate jurors*
Process is moving at a decent clip.
7/ Via Harry Litman:
The judge has ruled, and will instruct the jury, that all of Fox’s statements were false. But Dominion still has the right to make its case. So they are going to present the statements, from their first opening, in all their lurid detail. Fox has to just sit there and take it.
Laffy
Victoria