Focus on maid in Strauss-Kahn investigation
In a nine-page request to prosecutors, the defence attorneys list a series of demands for access to evidence collected against Strauss-Kahn, who is awaiting trial on a €4.1 million bail and bond.
They also seek to have prosecutors barred from accessing emails and phone messages sent to mobile phones and an iPad confiscated from Strauss-Kahn after his shock detention on an Air France plane about to leave New York for Paris on May 14.
The “demand for discovery” document was filed on Monday with Judge Michael Obus, the same day that Strauss-Kahn pleaded not guilty to seven counts of sex crimes, including attempted rape, against a 32-year-old woman cleaning his suite at the Manhattan Sofitel.
One request is for evidence of any prosecution witness “suffering from any physical or mental disability, emotional disturbance, drug addiction, or alcohol addiction”.
The attorneys, William Taylor and Benjamin Brafman, also demand to know whether any defence witness has immigration problems or is seeking payments through a civil lawsuit.
