Lawyer Asks D.A. For Gag Order in Braunstein Case
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The attorney for Peter Braunstein, the man charged with posing as a firefighter to sexually assault a Chelsea woman, is calling on the district attorney’s office to investigate and sanction law enforcement officials who leaked information about his client’s case to the New York Post. The attorney, Robert Gottlieb, also asked for an immediate gag order and requested a judge to bar certain evidence from trial due to its exposure in the newspaper.
“The problem is that everything law enforcement is doing is destroying any chance Peter Braunstein might have of receiving a fair trial,” Mr. Gottlieb said.
Referring to two stories that ran in the Post on January 6, Mr. Gottlieb charged in a letter to Judge James Yates, that “prosecution sources have indiscriminately aired details of writings allegedly taken from Mr. Braunstein, physical evidence allegedly recovered from Mr. Braunstein, and their own opinions as to Mr. Braunstein’s mental health and culpability.”
A spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office, Barbara Thompson, said the district attorney would respond to Mr. Gottlieb’s requests in a letter submitted to the court.
