this particular case. did you not think it worthwhile casting your mind to that particular public interest? ., interest? i m not the part, it prosecution interest? i m not the part, it prosecution authority, - interest? i m not the part, it prosecution authority, i - interest? i m not the part, it l prosecution authority, i gather interest? i m not the part, it - prosecution authority, i gather the information passed into the lawyers. | information passed into the lawyers. i am not the prosecution authority. they choose, not me. flan authority. they choose, not me. can we brina authority. they choose, not me. can we bring up authority. they choose, not me. can we bring up your witness statement again? page 12, paragraphs 42 to 1m. this is what you ve said in relation to this case. i have been asked to set out my recollections of these proceedings and been referred to a number of documents. this inquiry regarding suppression of documents was assigned to me, the letter was h
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defense. anytime you talk about a financial crime, what you re really saying is the person you re talking about is a thief and cannot be trusted and even though the judge, judge newman in this case, said you could only consider it for motive, because this is a circumstantial case, consider it for motive but nothing else, that s an academic exercise, trace. you can t have the jury unthink or unlisten or not consider something for one portion of their calculus and not the other. if we were in law school, we say the judge made the right ruling but this is a bombshell and a real defeat for the defense. trace: because even if you only use it for motive when you lay out all of these financial crimes, it looks like an interesting motive. absolutely. you think to yourself can it really be that simple? can you really think a suspect and a defendant would off his wife and his 22-year-old son just to distract from the attention of his thieving and crimes? but in this case, t prosecution bel
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