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Case Document 337 Filed 02/25/it?. I .
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By E-mail to . Jig j; 3i

Hon. Paul A. Crotty, United States District Judge
Southern District of New York
500 Pearl Street New York, NY 10007

Re: Press Access to United States v. Schulte, S2 17 Cr. 548 (PAC), including live feeds, exhibits
Dear Judge Crotty:

This supplements the January 22, 23 and 26, 2020 submissions on this topic on behalf of Inner
City Press and in my personal capacity. Your Honor on anaury 31 ruled inter alia that "[t]he
Government is directed to make transcripts and exhibits available to the public no later than the
evening after the day of testimony." Docket No. 293, at 15.

Inner City Press has been covering the trial, even as it has been ordered to leave the 14th floor
of 500 Pearl Street outside your Courtroom, and asked to face the wall on the ?fth ?oor by the
Magistrates Court which it also covers.

But this submission concerns the inaccessibility of exhibits. On February 21 Inner City Press
asked the US Attorney's Of?ce why the audio files played for the jury on February 20 were not
yet available. While the interchange was civil, neither the US Attorney's Of?ce's February 21 nor
24 uploads have included the requested audio ?les, precisely the type of exhibits that Of?ce
made available in for example the recent Michael Avenatti trial, and before that the OneCoin/
Mark Scott trial. We have made the limited exhibits provided available on


This is a formal request that your Honor direct the US Attorney's Of?ce to comply with your
January 31 Order; this request should be docketed in the same way as Inner City Press' previous
submissions in this case.

Again, the US. Supreme Court has recognized that reporting by the news media allows
members of the public to monitor the criminal justice system without attending proceedings in
person. Richmond Inc. Virginia, 448 US. at 572?73 (1980). By attending and
reporting on court proceedings, members of the press ?funetion[] as surrogates for the public.?
Id. at 573.

We ask that this be placed in the ECF docket and that these issues be addressed by Your
Honor.

Respectfully submitted,

Matthew Russell Lee
Inner City Press

Inner City Press: In-house SDNY: Room 480, 500 Pearl Street, NY NY 10007
Email: Matthew.Lee@innercitypress.com Tel: 718-716?3540
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