i watched this morning’s livestream at work because i couldn’t help myself, reynal (alex jones’ shitty lawyer) really did try to file for a mistrial and ask the judge to move that bankston should delete the entire phone backup he was sent. it turns out that reynal actually DID email back “please disregard, i will send you a new one” but
- that is not how that works
- you have to specify exactly what you are claiming is privileged, and why
- you have to send back new versions of the documents with the privileged content redacted and marked confidential
- reynal didn’t do any of that and just assumed bankston would be a bro and delete because he said “oops”
- reynal never even sent him the new documents
- all of the documents he is trying to get locked down are things that should have been produced over a year ago anyway
it turns out that what alex jones’ lawyers sent was. basically their whole shared drive. norm pattis’ entire computer. there was over 300GB. the medical records were for a different trial, in connecticut, and reynal shouldn’t have had them in the first place.
the judge told him that if he wants to go through and retroactively mark specific files as confidential, he can go through the normal process for that. reynal wanted another ten days and she said “no???” he complained about how many documents they would need to go through in a short amount of time. she pointed out that if they’d produced these documents a year ago they’d have plenty of time. if someone wants to subpoena the documents there’s nothing she can do about it and that’s a him problem.
the judge. literally thought he was joking about the mistrial. she tried to give him an out to say that he was joking. he was not. she told him to stop bringing up mistrials because that’s not how this works.
anyway that is my update