Counsel for each COPA and Wright this week tried to undermine skilled witnesses for the opposite social gathering, significantly questioning their “independence.” Wright’s staff on Monday questioned COPA skilled witness Patrick Madden on why he’d enlisted the assistance of COPA’s counsel at Chicken & Chicken LLP to arrange the findings of his investigation into Wright’s claims as a substitute of looking for unbiased assist. On Wednesday, the COPA camp, in flip, requested Wright’s skilled witness ZeMing Gao, who has authored a number of essays asserting Wright is Satoshi, whether or not he was actually an goal skilled.
