"So what happened Friday?" the judge asked. "He walks into a press room and he starts talking about the case?"
Brafman said a reporter with a "vendetta," baited Shkreli. "I hope your honor understands that he’s relatively young." The lawyer apologized to the judge and promised it wouldn’t happen again because a member of the defense team would be with Shkreli at all times.
The judge still had concerns about potentially exposing jurors to the comments, although she declined to restrict their movements in the court building or to sequester them.
"What is happening, based on your own client’s conduct, there is a danger that those jurors will be exposed,” Matsumoto said. “There is a great risk."
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