Via Stephen Fowler:
Happening now: A hearing to decide if #HarrisonFloyd, one of the 19 #Georgia election interference RICO defendants, will have bond revoked after a series of social media posts about witnesses/codefendants.
#Fulton DA #FaniWillis is here. #TrumpIndictment #legal
Live stream: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw8qlJ2NPS0
2/ Via Anna Bower:
Willis is back up on re-direct.
She directs Hill's attention to a post in which Floyd writes that Sterling and Brad Raffensperger are "pieces of💩you should be mad at."
Willis elicits a response from Hill in which he agrees that the statement directs 3rd parties how to feel.
3/ Random, cont'd. Via Bower:
Willis estab on dir. that Sterling saw tweets from Floyd
Then on cross, defense counsel begins: "Mr Sterling, you're not a fan of Donald Trump are you?"
McAfee nips that q in bud following state obj. Defense quickly moves on
3rd witness Von Dubose, atty for Ruby Freeman,Shaye Moss.
Per Dubose, he hired firm to conduct soc media threat assessments for Freeman,Moss.
Dubose says threats spiked following X post by Floyd, which necessitated extra safety measures
4/ I'm watching some of this. This idiot claims that tagging someone w/ an @ on Twitter isn't really contacting them. (I can't possibly explain their garble garble). See below:
Via Bower:
After a brief recess, we're back for closing arguments.
First up: Defense counsel for Floyd.
None of these posts amount to threats or intimidation, counsel argues.
Defense also argues that posts on Twitter don't amount to "communication" with witnesses or co-defendants.
6/ Defense: "He's a law abiding citizen.. .Yes other things but that doesn't count" (I'm paraphrasing second part).
LAW ABIDING???
He had to show all the way up here in court, defense complains more than once.
Wow. This is why we need cameras in the courtroom, or at LEAST audio. Bc this kind of quote never makes it into news reports.
7/ Defense ACTUALLY SAID THAT if they felt threatened they could report Floyd to Twitter.
Twitter has no Twitter Support anymore. No rules. That's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard.
8/ Fani is up now. She's ... being very firm.
9/ Judge wonders if mentioning her by name w/ no @ may be okay.
Willis disagrees.
10/ Fani is using the word "disgusting." She's on fire.
Bower:
She announces she will deliver a PowerPoint in closing.
(Fulton County prosecutors love PowerPoints, y'all.)
Willis starts w/ bond revocation law & standard of proof (preponderance of evidence).
11/ Fani's explaining to the judge that, unless Floyd had a private account "closed page"... then millions saw the tweets, even w/o tagging her, just using her name in the tweet.
Fani is showing various tweets.
12/ Willis: 🔥"Your honor, I just have to prove that he violated the order... ONCE."
"You should not have done it. You knew it was against the rules!"
13/ Bower:
As Willis discusses Floyd's posts about Freeman, McAfee interjects to note that the tweets about don't tag her.
Doesn't Floyd have 1st Amendment right to criticize state's case? he asks.
Willis notes that Floyd agreed to speech restrictions when he consented to bond conditions
14/ Sorry, I misnumbered the thread. Fixed.
Bower:
You as the trial court have a duty to keep witnesses safe, Willis tells McAfee.
Floyd knew what he was doing and he signed agreement consenting to conditions, she continues.
Now he needs to be held accountable for it in order to make sure witnesses are kept safe.
15/ You should be watching Willis. I gave you the link upthread.
She is f'ing ON FIRE🔥
16/ Fani finishes an amazing closing:
"We are asking that his bond be revoked and he be remanded... TOO-day." BOOM.
17/ Backtracking, via Bower:
The current slide up on Willis's PowerPoint is titled "The Absurdity of the Defendant's Argument."
Willis argues, forcefully, that Floyd knows that Ellis, Freeman, and Sterling are witnesses in the case.
She says that the indictment mentions Freeman more than 40 times.
18/ He's up now, floundering.
Via Bower:
There are real consequences for allowing defendants to intimidate witnesses, Willis says.
The state asks that the court revoke defendant Floyd's bond, she finishes.
McAfee says he'll let state to have last word, but allows Floyd's counsel to return to the podium for rebuttal.
19/ Willis up for a short rebuttal, including:
"The notion that not tagging them doesn't include them? That's lunacy"
Defense actually used an ex. of someone in a room overhearing someone else in a room isn't the same as saying something directly to them in that room
Uh, yeah, it is. If you intentionally say it for them to "overhear.".
Weak.
Judge is now out of the room, figuring all this out.
20/ Bower's recap:
At the lectern, Floyd's counsel urges McAfee to give him the benefit of the doubt.
He mentions that McAfee should apply the rule of lenity to the bond conditions by construing "communicate with" in Floyd's favor.
Fani Willis returns for final remarks.
The bottom line is that he violated the court's order, Willis says.
McAfee announces that he will gather his thoughts and return to the bench in 5 minutes.
@GottaLaff NOT FOR LAFFY
Hoping 5 minutes is judges 'code' for remand
I'm biased, but also an attorney, and with that said, I'd say Fani's team just drank the defendant's milkshake... 🤞
report him and get a poo emoji?
<snort>
@GottaLaff @MiriShuli And yet, it seemed to have worked. That poor man just didn’t understand the document he signed. He didn’t understand what direct or indirect communication was. He just didn’t know.
The judge is a blithering idiot. Another white man who doesn’t understand anything about social media and refuses to hold any man accountable for their actions. Ever.
Edited comment: Is he setting up a very careful precedent for Trump? Maybe, but I am too cynical to hope.
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He's actually black I believe. But normally that'd be their argument. Still might be lol
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