They’ve spent the last 9 months filing motion after motion, continuing to argue against cameras being allowed in the court room and trying to shut down every hearing and even the preliminary hearing!! The fact they haven’t had the preliminary hearing yet bc of the defense’s temper tantrums over cameras in the court and open hearings, is just ridiculous.
They should be zealously advocating for their client, but that work, time, energy, effort, advocating and legal arguments would be better spent post-preliminary hearing on witness lists, experts, evidentiary testing, motion in limine, etc, etc!!
They need to seriously give up arguing over cameras being allowed in the courtroom, it’s been argued over & ruled on MULTIPLE times now!! Enough is enough. 🙄
They are risking getting on the wrong side of the Judge at this point! Every lawyer, whether for the prosecution or defense, will tell you that you really do NOT want to get on the wrong side of the Judge when they’re handling your case! Esp when you haven’t even gotten to the really important and absolutely crucial parts of the pretrial phase, let alone the actual trial, or any of the actual important motions and arguments that you need to be making!!
If they’re so damn convinced of their clients innocence, or that the investigation, handling of evidence & the case was mishandled at any point along the way…….they should absolutely WANT the cameras in the courtroom so that the public would see that!!
Take note of how the defense team in the Karen Read case WANTED cameras for EVERY hearing AND trial!! That’s bc they damn well knew that not only was their client FACTUALLY INNOCENT, but that the investigation was botched, the witnesses were lying & conspiring together (& w corrupt law enforcement & the corrupt DA!!), there was a cover up, there was corruption from law enforcement (Canton PD -and- MSP!) & the Norfolk DAs office, massive mishandling of most of the evidence & massive mistakes w chain of custody - or no proper chain of custody, MSP detectives & the DAs office HIDING evidence & NOT handing it over, multiple witnesses getting rid of their phones (an ATF agent breaking his SIM card & disposing of his phone on a military base!! The other witness being a Boston PD officer! Both conveniently getting tipped off that the Judge approved a subpoena for their devices & getting rid of them supposedly the day before they were sent the subpoena!!), all sorts of tomfoolery and straight up fuckery going on in the case & their client very clearly being set up & framed!! They WANTED those cameras in the court so the public could witness all of that firsthand!! And look at the massive fallout as a direct result of that case!! The fallout hasn’t even finished yet & just keeps spreading wider, getting more massive & going deeper!!
The defense wasting so much bloody time on cameras & media being in the court and trying to close down hearings and the preliminary hearing tells me EVERYTHING about the defense tactics and that they really don’t have any good arguments, no other plays to make and no real defense strategy at all for their client!!