Sue Simpson
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370 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 11 Jun
Sue Simpson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, and so that led to a pretty intense moment in court earlier this week when they were still working their way through pretrial motions. Lori's trying to have a speedy trial, but the prosecution has said it's too speedy, that they don't have enough information about what she's planned for her defense. And they actually said she's trying to conduct a trial by ambush.
And Lori kind of took offense to that.
The judge was trying to get her to tell him about the relevancy of each of her witnesses, and they had this exchange.
Yeah, the total was actually over 60 until this week when one of those suits was dismissed by a judge because the plaintiff didn't identify herself. So this claim was brought in federal court in the Southern District of New York, so Manhattan. And the plaintiff said that back in 1995, she was at a party for a music video and she and Combs started kissing in the bathroom.
And when she stopped, she says he struck her and then he raped her. He is denied this allegation. So when she filed the suit in October, the judge said the plaintiff could stay anonymous because putting her name to those allegations would get her, quote, significant, potentially harmful attention from the media and the public.
But in January, that same judge said the plaintiff had until March 20th to come forward. When she didn't make that deadline, the judge dismissed her suit. Right. On Monday. Yes, yes. Comstein put out a statement after that dismissal came down, which said, For months, we've seen case after case filed by individuals hiding behind anonymity.
The other claims, like the one dismissed today, also will not hold up in a court of law.
I am. I am. I'm here for the start of jury selection in Karen Reid's second trial. You'll remember she's charged with hitting and killing her police officer boyfriend, John O'Keefe, with her SUV a little over three years ago now. She's pleaded not guilty. And the scene here in Dedham is still kind of wild.
You know, the judge, it's the same judge, Beverly Canone, has set an even bigger buffer zone around the courthouse to keep the crowds at bay.
This time there's something called a randomizer, actually, which is selecting all the reporters in the tiny courtroom.
When jury selection started on Tuesday, I was there very early in the morning and there are metal barricades up all around the court, more than in the past. I saw Dedham police going by on bicycles and, of course, their Massachusetts state troopers stationed in front of the court as they were last time. It feels like there's more security. I saw really small groups of protesters.
They were waving huge flags and they were wearing pink.
Oh boy, it is going to be a challenge. And people are saying, the judge is saying it could take two to three weeks. So on the first day, almost 100 prospective jurors were brought into the courtroom. And here's why it's going to be a problem. Three quarters of them said that they'd heard about the case with many of those people saying that they'd already formed an opinion about it.
And that's not, of course, what either side wants to hear. One more thing I want to say, having watched the proceedings on Tuesday when jury selection started, it's really interesting to see how deeply involved Karen is in working on the jury selection process. She is going through the questionnaires with the attorneys. She's sometimes at sidebar with them as they grill prospective jurors.
I'm not surprised at all. Is Alan Jackson there, her L.A. attorney? Yes. He is. And they've also added a New York attorney. And they actually added an alternate juror from the first trial, somebody who came forward who's an attorney. And she's working with the team. So she was going through questionnaires Tuesday as well with Karen. Fascinating.
Yeah, they have. They winnowed down about 100 prospective jurors to 13 men and three women. So that will be the 12 and four alternates. They filled out online questionnaires, you know, what have you heard about the case? She's rolling the dice here by representing herself.
Yeah, and so that led to a pretty intense moment in court earlier this week when they were still working their way through pretrial motions. Lori's trying to have a speedy trial, but the prosecution has said it's too speedy, that they don't have enough information about what she's planned for her defense. And they actually said she's trying to conduct a trial by ambush.
And Lori kind of took offense to that.
The judge was trying to get her to tell him about the relevancy of each of her witnesses, and they had this exchange.
Yeah, the total was actually over 60 until this week when one of those suits was dismissed by a judge because the plaintiff didn't identify herself. So this claim was brought in federal court in the Southern District of New York, so Manhattan. And the plaintiff said that back in 1995, she was at a party for a music video and she and Combs started kissing in the bathroom.
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