Court Reporting — Day 18
Final day of witness testimony. Daniel Loper and Dr. Thomas A. Andrew testified; Farwell declined to testify, and the defense rested. Includes a separate witness testimony summary.
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Daily courtroom reporting, organized for reading.
Grant Smith Ellis’s contemporaneous reporting from United States v. Matthew Farwell, preserved chronologically by court day with source links retained wherever practical.
Archive Update — October 31, 2026
Supplemental courtroom reporting has been added to previously published trial days. Each supplement is also available independently below.
October 20: Jessica Katz · Heidi Kelsch · Dr. Priyanka Venkataraman
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Day 18 — November 4, 2026
Defense Case-in-Chief — final witness day. Reporting covering digital-forensics analyst Daniel Loper, forensic pathologist Dr. Thomas A. Andrew, Farwell’s decision not to testify, and the defense resting.
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Defense Case-in-Chief
Beginning October 28, 2026
Court Reporting — Day 17
Defense Case-in-Chief — Day 5. Full reconstructed court-day report with testimony by Dr. Maher “Max” Nourredine and Dr. Angie Christensen.
Court Reporting — Day 16
Defense Case-in-Chief — Day 4. Full reconstructed court-day report, with a separate witness testimony summary.
Court-Day Reconstruction — Day 15
Defense Case-in-Chief — Day 3. Reconstructed from identified contemporaneous courtroom reporting and notes; not an official or verbatim transcript.
Court Reporting — Day 14
Defense Case-in-Chief — Day 2. Court-day report complete through the jury's dismissal and scheduling proceedings.
Court Reporting — Day 13
Government rested at 12:09:59 PM ET; defense case-in-chief began, with supplemental reporting for Joseph Harris.
Court Reporting — Day 12
Court-day report complete through end-of-day proceedings.
Court Reporting — Day 11
Court-day report complete through end-of-day proceedings at 4:01 PM ET.
Court Reporting — Day 10
Half-day court report complete through today’s scheduled 1:00 PM adjournment.
Court Reporting — Day 9
Court-day report complete through end-of-day proceedings at 4:28:00 PM ET.
Court Reporting — Day 8
Court-day report complete through adjournment at 4:12:42 PM ET.
Court Reporting — Day 7
Final court-day report, complete through adjournment at 3:43:16 PM ET.
Court Reporting — Day 6
Court Reporting — Day 5
Court Reporting — Day 4
Court Reporting — Day 3
Court Reporting — Day 2
Court Reporting — Day 1
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Method. Each court-day document is treated as a self-contained publication unit. Grant Smith Ellis’s chronological reporting forms the primary record presented there, with links or identifiers for the original reporting retained wherever practical.
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