Zoe Chace
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782 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Jul
Zoe Chace’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The courtroom was packed, nine defendants, each with like two lawyers, so a lot of lawyers, plus the prosecution, plus everyone else, reporters and family members and law students and interested observers, all jostling, a little fighting.
The court sketch artist sat basically on my right knee on the first day with his huge easel spread out in front of us like a sail.
Judge Pittman likes to open trial days with little homilies.
He says, I urge you all to remember the saying from General Patton.
This will be our watchword for the trial.
You cannot be disciplined in the great things and undisciplined in the small things.
The judge wants things done a certain way.
Once you find your seat, he says, stay in it.
So we begin.
The prosecutors make their opening statement, saying this was an Antifa attack.
They are career government prosecutors in the Northern District of Texas.
They are matter-of-fact and colorless.
And then the defense gets to make their opening arguments, and they're all showmen, to one degree or another.
They make their case over and over, because nine defendants.
This was just a protest, they said, that went off the rails.
The prosecution starts rolling out its evidence the next day in pretty dramatic fashion.
They wheel in a cart full of boxes like an Amazon delivery.
The boxes were tall and skinny, looked like someone had ordered a bunch of curtains.
I didn't know what was in them.
They bring in a parade of law enforcement to walk through everything they found that night.
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