With the January 6, 2025 trial date rapidly approaching, CNN has apparently resorted to trying to get the court to bar an expert witness from testifying against them in the $1 billion defamation suit they’re facing. Among their various complaints directed against Major General James V. Young (retired), CNN essentially argued that he was too good of a witness and provided too many important facts for the jury.
According to a filing from Plaintiff and Navy veteran Zachary Young (no relation to General Young) objecting to efforts to remove his expert witness, CNN was opposing General Young’s testimony because he was too good of a witness:
CNN contents that General Young’s testimony would confuse, mislead, or prejudice the jury, but fails to explain how or why. Perplexingly, CNN’s only basis for this argument appears to be that General Young, as a…
