This is NOT how you try jury cases.Habba: "I don't like to be spoken to that way, your honor." She continued to ask for an adjournment, at which point Kaplan cut her off again:
— erica orden (@eorden) January 17, 2024
"It’s denied. Sit down."
If the judge is being extremely biased towards your client in court before the jury, you fight by preserving legitimate objections that may win in appeal.
That’s not what Habba is doing. She’s trying the case for her client. Best way to lose there is. Juries understand the judge is the authority. Prying that sympathy away from the judge is an uphill fight best suited to a hard case, a sympathetic client, and a harsh judge.
None of those factors exist here.
These are pretty basic things most lawyers kinda know. https://t.co/Zk0G3m3d4L
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 17, 2024
I worked in a federal trial (before law school, as a paralegal) that involved two defendants (Fairchild Republic and McDonnell-Douglas), and we expected it to take at least three weeks. The federal judge based in Pecos, Texas came into the Austin courtroom and announced he had a trial in Pecos on Monday, so we had until Saturday to finish the case. Our client was not best pleased with that, and neither were we. But there wasn’t any choice in the matter, so we soldiered on.A trial lawyer’s job is to persuade the jury. Alina Habba views her job as impressing Trump. The things you are required to do in a courtroom to impress Trump alienates & pisses off judges & juries. But then they will go on social media and TV and complain how unfair it all was.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 17, 2024
Judges run their courtrooms. EOD.
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