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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Courts - "Astor Trial Plods On, Trying the Patience of Many "
Adding to this long list of earlier Brooke Astor estate trial entries, this story, by A. G. Sultzberger and John Eligon was in the August 17th NY Times. It begins:
The Astor trial, three months in, had bogged down once again.With the jury out of the room, John R. Cuti, a defense lawyer, voiced what has become a common complaint by many people in the courtroom: He accused the prosecution of taking too long to make a point.
“I didn’t realize you were my time-management consultant,” Joel J. Seidemann, an assistant district attorney, fired back during the exchange last month.
“You could use one,” snipped Mr. Cuti.
Much like the woman at the center of it, the Astor trial has had a life longer than anyone could have reasonably expected. After crawling through 72 witnesses during 17 weeks of testimony — longer than the whole trial was supposed to take — the prosecution is expected to wrap up its case on Tuesday, leaving lawyers to debate whether the avalanche of information has advanced the case or obscured it.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 19, 2009 09:47 AM
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