October 28, 2022
[Rachel] Fiset noted that the house arrest order may not make it to the jury, but it does indicate that the judge seems to buy the prosecution’s noncompliance argument. “That could help the prosecution in requests that are completely up to the judge — pretrial orders and things like that,” Fiset said. She added, “Once a judge finds a defendant noncompliant, they may give more weight to the prosecution’s arguments.”
