Talk About Tennis 2.0

Well stated - and if the juror didn't lie, then it was a poor voir dire effort from Maxwell's lawyers

The original report I read indicated all of the jurors were required to complete a questionnaire. It included a question about whether or not you had been sexually abused or assaulted in the past (something to that effect).

The juror in question stated he/she "flew through" the questionnaire and did not remember any such question.

So if the juror did not answer that question, assuming it really WAS there, then that was an oversight. Someone should have caught it. If the juror answered the question with a "no", then that would technically constitute, at worst, a lie, or at best, a fairly egregious error.

Not to contradict the above at all, but if what is legally considered "sexual assault" (i.e. includes groping) would be enough reason to dismiss, good luck finding any women (or even men) appropriate to serve on juries in cases like these.

Epstein case: ex-model agent Jean-Luc Brunel found dead in prison
The Frenchman was indicted for "rape of a minor" and placed under the status of assisted witness for "trafficking in human beings". According to our information, the septuagenarian was found hanged last night.

By Zoe Lauwereys ,
Jérémie Pham-Lê and
Nicolas Jacquard
February 19, 2022 at 11:43 am , modified on February 19, 2022 at 2:58 pm

Former modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel was found dead in custody, sources close to the case say. The 74-year-old Frenchman, alleged tout of young girls for the benefit of Jeffrey Epstein , the now deceased American billionaire, was indicted in December 2020 for "rape of minors" and "sexual harassment".

The suspect had also been placed under the intermediate status of assisted witness for acts of "aggravated human trafficking to the detriment of minor victims for the purpose of sexual exploitation".

According to our information, the septuagenarian was found dead by hanging last night in his cell in the Paris prison of Health. He was found around 1 am during the night patrol. He could not be revived, said a prison source.

The Paris prosecutor's office confirmed that Jean-Brunel had been found dead and indicated that an investigation into the causes of death had been opened, entrusted to the 3rd judicial police district. His death means the extinction of public action in this case, unless other people were to be involved.

“According to the first elements available to us, no breach was noted on the side of the agents who were on duty that night”, explains Erwan Saoudi, delegate of the prison FO union for Ile-de-France. The union wants proof that the intervention occurred around one o'clock, and that Brunel's body was not found in the early morning. “This shows that this inmate was determined to take action. All rounds have been completed. On average, there are four to six in the night at the level of the vulnerable people district (QPV), the one where Brunel was imprisoned. He thing to commit his gesture between two rounds. First aid couldn't do anything. It is certain that he was then alone in the cell. »

Jean-Luc Brunel did not benefit from an emergency protection unit (Cprou). These cells specially designed to prevent the risk of suicide, where the detainee is dressed in paper clothes and tearable sheets, are reserved for detainees in crisis whose suicide risk is imminent.

“His distress was that of a 75-year-old man crushed by a media-judicial system on which it would be time to question himself”, estimate his lawyers Me Mathias Chichportich, Me Marianne Abgrall and Me Christophe Ingrain. “Jean-Luc Brunel has never ceased to proclaim his innocence. He multiplied his efforts to prove it. A judge released him a few months ago and then he was reincarcerated in appalling conditions. His decision was not guided by guilt but by a deep sense of injustice. »


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Translated from the French by Google.

Posting this because of the picture. Two of the three people in it are now deceased.

Oh boy - some social media feeds will be full of tin foil today.


Edit - opened feed and it's already polluted. Guess I will stay off it for a few days

Note to Ghislaine: put everything in writing NOW. Hand over to lawyers, with instructions that if something happens to you, it gets sent to the NYT, Wash Post, Le Figaro, Der Spiegel and the BBC (plus any other outlet). Make this public.
Also. Sleep during the day, and read books at night.