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be NO Ww ws Oo OY ~] oO Ke) a oO he be No (ee) = Hs Oo _ OY a ~] a oO a Ke} 20 21 22 23 24 25 Case 1:19-cr-00490-RMB Document53_ Filed 09/03/19 Page 23 of 86 23 J8RSEPS1 told that the medical examiner had seen nine minutes of one video which was on a stairwell between floors at the MCC. She was told that the principal video that would have showed the whole hall was corrupted. they can reconstruct it. It was in DC with the FBI to see if And I asked the same questions that my co-counsel did, you know, was the dysfunction of the critical pivotal video, in to the MCC before August 10 the most secure prison east of Florence, out in Colorado known , or was this corruption occurring on August 10, which would again cause us to be skeptical of the servitude of the medical examiner's conclusions that this was suicide rather than some other cause. So with my co-counsel, we ask your Honor, it is not a question of trust or not trust. They ask you to detain people and you trust the Bureau of Prisons. And it is within your inherit authority, your Honor, to find out what happened to our client. We are angry about the conditions he was held in. And we're also angry, quite frankly, your Honor, that the only source of information that we get as to what happened to him is through the media rather than through the United States Attorney's office. We've made requests informal. We have made Touhy requests. We've investigation. been told there is a pending But we trust your Honor and the judiciary, and with SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300 DOJ-OGR-00000661