Document A-5926

CAC3PARC 24 1 Mr. Shechtman, do you want to be heard further? 2 MR. SHECHTMAN: I will and I will try to be brief. 3 Judge. I think really four points. The government has 4 repeated at the argument here what it said in its brief. Which 5 was that Mr. Parse benefited from the strategic choice that his 6 clients made and I'll hold the strategic choice point for 7 second. But I take that to mean that he got acquitted here 8 because she was on the jury. And that, my father used to say 9 arguments were nonsense on stilts, and that is nonsense on 10 stilts. I mean, your Honor knows exactly what happened here. 11 There was a partisan in the jury room, a woman who couldn't 12 follow instructions and the like. Your opinion couldn't be 13 stronger on the point. And she was fighting the good fight to 14 convict him on 100 percent. 15 So to say we got the benefit of having her on there 16 because we were acquitted isn't worthy, respectfully, of the 17 government. 18 And the related point this was a split verdict, it is 19 a split verdict because she couldn't carry the ball as far as 20 she wanted to, but not because Mr. Parse benefited by her 21 presence. 22 The second thing I'd say is this. I take it there are 23 two competing visions of what happened here, and at the end of 24 the day, your Honor is going to have to decide. One is that 25 what happened in that court, your Honor, in the plaza, is that SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300 --- PAGE BREAK --- Case 1:20-cr-00336-PAE Document 616 Filed 08/24/22 Page 83 of 117 A-5926 CAC3PARC 24 1 Mr. Shechtman, do you want to be heard further? 2 MR. SHECHTMAN: I will and I will try to be brief, 3 Judge. I think really four points. The government has 4 repeated at the argument here what it said in its brief. Which 5 was that Mr. Parse benefited from the strategic choice that his 6 clients made and I'll hold the strategic choice point for 7 second. But I take that to mean that he got acquitted here 8 because she was on the jury. And that, my father used to say 9 arguments were nonsense on stilts, and that is nonsense on 10 stilts. I mean, your Honor knows exactly what happened here. 11 There was a partisan in the jury room, a woman who couldn't 12 follow instructions and the like. Your opinion couldn't be 13 stronger on the point. And she was fighting the good fight to 14 convict him on 100 percent. 15 So to say we got the benefit of having her on there 16 because we were acquitted isn't worthy, respectfully, of the 17 government. 18 And the related point this was a split verdict, it is 19 a split verdict because she couldn't carry the ball as far as 20 she wanted to, but not because Mr. Parse benefited by her 21 presence. 22 The second thing I'd say is this. I take it there are 23 two competing visions of what happened here, and at the end of 24 the day, your Honor is going to have to decide. One is that 25 what happened in that court, your Honor, in the plaza, is that SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300