Civil Litigation
Aug. 1, 2022
Witness with possible exculpatory testimony is missing from Twitter trial
“The proper thing to do would have been to inform the defense immediately of the exculpatory material, and to give the defense the chance to issue a subpoena while the witness was still within range. And so I think there’s a problem,” said U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen.
U.S. District Judge Edward Chen ruled Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice prejudiced a former Twitter employee accused of selling information to the Saudi government by not informing his defense team that a mystery witness had provided potentially exculpatory information in a pretrial interview the night before she was pulled as a witness.
The government said the witness had COVID symptoms and was sent back home from San Francisco to...
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