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@Alwaystyping!
KS’s body language and facial expressions at FD’s arraignment/bail hearing had about them echos of a Tarantino audition. MT presumably watches TV and surfs the internet as well, so I can’t see any way that she or her attorney would NOT note the riptide undercurrent attendant with Team FD courtroom drop-in at MT’s recent Lady Madonna appearance.
I agree with
@afitzy that the NCO was clearly broad, requested by MT through her attorney, and specifically noted that members of FD’s legal team including its attorneys, agents, and representatives, were not to conduct nor attempt direct or indirect communications (such as through third parties or intermediaries.
KS’s pop-up court appearance might as well have been a drive by flash mob in terms of signaling. KS fell within (and violated) the clear intent and spirit of the court order barring contact attempts.
Why not just send the copy guy from next door (or, as afitzy noted, wait for the court hearing transcript to come out) were it authentically casual and meant simply to report back on the hearing and provide an update to the defense team re MT hearing? KS did not need to personally appear in court for Team FD to provide Mr. Grinch with a vigorous proactive defense. (Odds on the pop in winding up on the defense bill? What a coincidence that KS just happened to be at the courthouse on an unrelated matter, know the MT hearing was to be underway at the exact time and in which courtroom, and decide oh hey, how about I just drop by to visit some old friends right here?)
Well, because none of those other means like the copy guy next door or a court transcript or news feed would likely seem in real time, or perhaps at all, very menacing as concerns the strategic targeted messaging directed to/for the public’s consumption and, moreover, MT.
No rules: just reminders. Of who is in charge here. FD is boundary testing — boundary violating — it is business as usual. Is the bench, through inaction, enabling the normalization of **** tactics in state court? IMO this is a terribly dangerous and toxic strategy the bench may be incentivizing by not calling this out. I hope that the prosecutor and MT’s attorney move for sanctions against the defense team or the court, by its own action, find KS in contempt of its prior order against FD and his team re no contact of MT. KS’s action was neither innocent, accidental, nor innocuous. The absurdity of this situation shocks the conscious and strikes at the core of the public’s faith in our legal system.
So beyond the fact the court did not call this out and haunt the proceedings to memorialize on the record the violation of FD’s counsel and direct the bailiff or Marshall to have KS escorted off the courthouse premises for the day. This infraction NP will claim would be much ado about nothing, but for sure the violation of the NCO is not nothing unless the court fails to take notice and act. If the court does not publicly censure, sanction, or reprimand FD’s attorney/s for this, one must ask oneself what on earth does the NCO mean, what was it for, and why did the court even bother to issue such an order had it no intention of enforcing the order?
KS’s gallery visit reminds me of FD’s “innocent” “accidental” slip into NY with the Waze excuse. Both were very much strategic and deliberate, all can rest assured. FD just popped in to NY despite being barred from leaving CT. MT totally blew the conditions of her release that her attorney negotiated on MT’s behalf to spend two weeks on effective house arrest in NY and which the court in fact granted, but so much for that. What a waste of extremely strained court time and resources and a face slap to JD and the larger community!
FD and MT have lied and conned and partied and skied.
Now they want to skate, too, just like always, it seems.
Thanks for all the info and updates on the cameras in the park and NC politics, government, security, process, and decision making
@afitzy
And for the JD blog post excerpts about her loving and devoted King Charles Spaniel. Beautiful words. And such sweet creatures.
@Daisyeve you are right on: dogs really can sniff out a rat.
(or a wolf in ski clothing)
Had the internet been around in public use back when JD and FD were at Brown, I’m betting FD would have targeted whoever was the mark who offered the most for FD to gain.
He goes for the brass ring. It doesn’t matter to him which side it’s on.
By 2003 FD would’ve been able to more easily clandestinely research which person in his universe presented for him the best ROI. He wasted no time in executing his plan.
He is so calculating. In every sense of that word.
IMO/JMO/MOO
*ETC stratification to strategic (grrr autocorrect)
