Ep. 9 | Straw Mann

Climate Change on Trial

Unreported Story Society

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4.9 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Michael Mann’s legal team yet again tries to admit a controversial report into evidence. The document has been a source of controversy since it was first examined by the appeals court, and has been a subject of furious litigation throughout the trial. The judge finally makes a ruling on the report, but the big question remains: Why don’t Mann’s lawyers like the DC metro system?

And, can Mann’s case survive the laughter of Berkeley students?

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm Phala Macalhear. This is a daily podcast from inside the DC defamation trial of writer and broadcaster Mark Stein.
0:14.3	Stein has been sued for defamation by climate scientist Professor Michael Mann.
0:19.1	Stein described Mann's famous hockey stick graph as a fraud. Man is also suing writer Ran Simburg who made similar comments.
0:27.0	We're presenting the podcast in a very special way by having actors reenact court transcripts
0:32.0	verbatim so you get the most exciting
0:34.3	exchanges from the court every day. So welcome to climate change on trial day nine
0:40.6	straw man. So we're in our fancy, fancy new courtroom, but some things haven't changed.
0:47.0	I mean, and I just said this morning, I really, really need to say this from we're recording today.
0:54.0	It is incredible to me that every day of this jury trial,
0:58.4	the jury do not turn up on time every day. actually I think it's gotten worse not better and I think it
1:07.5	doesn't help that they don't get an admonishment for that behavior so this morning morning, you know, everyone is there, people who are earning, you know, are getting $2,000 an hour or sitting there waiting for the jury. The judge didn't come in until 10 o'clock, didn't appear until 10 o'clock, to tell us that four jurors had been missing and wait to wait on the four jurors.
1:28.0	And this has happened every day. We just had a repeat of this and it's extraordinary and he kind of joked this
1:34.5	evening at the end of the court day he kind of said why don't I say to you jurors why don't I
1:38.3	say to you come in at 915 you know ha ha ha ha and I just thought, and we should, I mean,
1:43.9	film, you've talked about this before, that in certain jurisdictions,
1:46.9	this would really not be tolerated.
1:48.4	Far as I know in most jurisdictions, this would not be tolerated.
1:51.2	In the British system, where I've covered a lot of court cases, the
1:54.9	average system and I was talking to someone today, the Canadian system, you know, the jurors
2:00.6	would be late, they would get a roasting from the judge if they continued to be
2:06.2	late the judge would find them I've been in court I've heard of judges who will
2:11.1	send out a police officer with a bench warrant to bring the jurors in.
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