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struggle4progress

(126,158 posts)
Thu Sep 7, 2023, 01:11 PM Sep 2023

Jury deliberations begin in contempt of Congress trial

By Tierney Sneed and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN
Updated 12:05 PM EDT, Thu September 7, 2023

... Prosecutors told the jury during closing arguments Thursday that Navarro “made a choice” not to comply with a February 2022 subpoena.

Justice Department attorney Elizabeth Aloi said that the government only works if people play by the rules and are held accountable if they don’t.

“The subpoena – it is not hard to understand,” she said, adding that Navarro knew “what he was required to do and when he was required to do it.”

Navarro’s attorney Stanley Woodward contested the idea that the subpoena was simple, staying that the subpoena did not specify where in the Capitol complex Navarro was supposed to show up for his deposition ...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/peter-navarro-contempt-of-congress-january-6-committee-subpoena/index.html

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Jury deliberations begin in contempt of Congress trial (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2023 OP
K&R UTUSN Sep 2023 #1
was his attorney making a joke? maxsolomon Sep 2023 #2
His attorney *IS* a joke. SeattleVet Sep 2023 #3
He told that to jurors who found their own way to a courtroom. Goodheart Sep 2023 #6
Wait. How could the jury that was seated this morning already be deliberating? msfiddlestix Sep 2023 #4
Almost all of the trial was yesterday. Closing arguments were earlier today. struggle4progress Sep 2023 #5
oh oh. omg I was totally not on line yesterday, missed this. msfiddlestix Sep 2023 #7

maxsolomon

(38,729 posts)
2. was his attorney making a joke?
Thu Sep 7, 2023, 02:43 PM
Sep 2023

"...the subpoena did not specify where in the Capitol complex Navarro was supposed to show up for his deposition..."?

 

Goodheart

(5,760 posts)
6. He told that to jurors who found their own way to a courtroom.
Thu Sep 7, 2023, 04:06 PM
Sep 2023

I would've made a bad juror in this trial because I would have bust out laughing.

msfiddlestix

(8,178 posts)
4. Wait. How could the jury that was seated this morning already be deliberating?
Thu Sep 7, 2023, 03:59 PM
Sep 2023

am I mistaken? Did this trial begin before today??

msfiddlestix

(8,178 posts)
7. oh oh. omg I was totally not on line yesterday, missed this.
Thu Sep 7, 2023, 04:06 PM
Sep 2023

thought I was reading current info in other reports on the jury selection, thinking that was happening today.

thank you for clarifying.

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