I wish we could watch this trial because this phrase
The lawyer says she told the government in 2019 that it was in New York.
I want to know if this is in a recording or transcripts--in other words, if it was actually said ever by the victim. Or IF the defense attorney just said it and made it up because this is a common defense game/tactic I hate--it was never said perhaps but they just make something up so now it is planted in the jury's head she said this when maybe she never did...
Anyhow, I'd need to know that to decide if it means anything at all or if it is intentional planting of a defense made up thing to mislead the jury.
AFAIK it was in the FBI notes of her previous interview. I am posting a live updating link from the NY post today so we may be able to see if it goes back to this cross exam.
Follow the New York Post’s live coverage for the trial of alleged Jeffrey Epstein madam Ghislaine Maxwell, which began this week in Manhattan Federal Court.
nypost.com
ETA I have found this link with more detail about the prior interview notes.
"In response, Maxwell’s attorneys used material gathered by FBI investigators in interviews from 2019 to 2021, intending to contradict anything and everything Jane said — “Misremembering details, misremembering where she lived, not being able to recognize a house, that all goes to her credibility as a witness, her believability,” is how Christian Everdell, a lawyer for Maxwell, explained it to the judge; then he said something preposterous: “Her memory of every single detail of her childhood is central to the case.”
The “I don’t recalls” from Jane began in response to a sea of questions stemming from those prior statements to the government. At first, this felt like a devastating pummeling; the defense did make Jane look like she had been inconsistent over the years. The Broadway opening year of
The Lion King, in her memory of
every single detail of her childhood, was off by three years. At one point, she seemed to be suffering and answered a question about the abuse in a different vocal mode, in a strangled or childlike tone; I absolutely believed everything from her after hearing that. (“When the body undergoes trauma, there are inevitable repercussions for the voice, especially in its capacity as an instrument,”
wrote the soprano Lauren McQuistin in an article about the effects of sexual abuse on vocalists in the
Journal of Singing.)
Finally, at last, Jane said that what she was being asked to respond to weren’t actually transcripts of her words — they were someone’s typed notes of what Jane had said. She had never seen that text herself, and her account hadn’t even been recorded.
Even so, some observers present in court this week
thought Jane’s testimony was bleak for the prosecution. But people, even juries, recognize that we can’t remember the entirety of our teenage years, particularly when we are being serially assaulted.
Maxwell’s team lost its way. The lawyers fumbled down weird roads and never arrived at a destination. The lawyer asking questions later said she was suffering from low blood sugar. Then, for a while, the defense worked on describing Jane as money hungry and after an Epstein payday."
More at link.
www.nbcnewyork.com
