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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsU.S. prosecutors ask judge to silence Shkreli during trial
Source: Reuters
BUSINESS NEWS | Tue Jul 4, 2017 | 7:37pm EDT
U.S. prosecutors ask judge to silence Shkreli during trial
By Jessica DiNapoli | NEW YORK
Federal prosecutors on Monday asked a U.S. judge for a gag order muzzling former drug company executive Martin Shkreli, on trial for securities fraud charges, arguing that his statements to media could taint the jury and disrupt the case, court papers show.
Shkreli's attorney, Benjamin Brafman, asked the judge that day to reject the request on the grounds that his client had a First Amendment right to speak freely, according to the filings.
Shkreli last week told reporters outside the court that an alleged victim of his was not actually a victim because she made money from his investments, attorneys for the U.S. government told U.S. Judge Kiyo Matsumoto in a letter on Monday. He also directly spoke on camera to a journalist and appeared to be commenting on the case on social media platform Twitter under the handle @BLMBro, they added.
Brafman said Shkreli was in a delicate emotional state, and believed that the press focuses unfairly on some of his negative characteristics.
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U.S. prosecutors ask judge to silence Shkreli during trial
By Jessica DiNapoli | NEW YORK
Federal prosecutors on Monday asked a U.S. judge for a gag order muzzling former drug company executive Martin Shkreli, on trial for securities fraud charges, arguing that his statements to media could taint the jury and disrupt the case, court papers show.
Shkreli's attorney, Benjamin Brafman, asked the judge that day to reject the request on the grounds that his client had a First Amendment right to speak freely, according to the filings.
Shkreli last week told reporters outside the court that an alleged victim of his was not actually a victim because she made money from his investments, attorneys for the U.S. government told U.S. Judge Kiyo Matsumoto in a letter on Monday. He also directly spoke on camera to a journalist and appeared to be commenting on the case on social media platform Twitter under the handle @BLMBro, they added.
Brafman said Shkreli was in a delicate emotional state, and believed that the press focuses unfairly on some of his negative characteristics.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-shkreli-idUSKBN19P2MW
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U.S. prosecutors ask judge to silence Shkreli during trial (Original Post)
Eugene
Jul 2017
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Fluke a Snooker
(404 posts)1. This is why we need single payer NOW...
Once we go single-payer, we can control the drug industry and work on people's medical needs, and eliminate the dangerously oppressive profit motive from the equation.
BootinUp
(47,053 posts)2. Negative characteristics? Lol
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)3. Does he have any positive characteristics? One wonders.