Underwear snafu delays Chinese woman's Mar-a-Lago trespassing trial

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A US jail's failure to provide underwear needed to change out of prison garb and into street clothes delayed the start of jury selection in the ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida: A US jail's failure to provide underwear needed to change out of prison garb and into street clothes delayed the start of jury selection in the trial of a Chinese national charged withYujing Zhang, 33, arrived at a federal court in Fort Lauderdale on Monday wearing the brown uniform she has worn in detention since she was arrested at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach in March while carrying multiple electronic devices, sparking a probe as to whether she posed an...

Speaking through a translator, the defendant told Altman that the jail failed to provide her with the undergarments necessary to change her clothing."I can’t change because of feminine issues ... I’m embarrassed,” Zhang said. “I don’t know very much about. I don’t even know why I’m here today. I thought my case was cancelled," Zhang told the judge.Altman called a recess to discuss the underwear snafu and other issues with lawyers.

Some US experts say her attempt to enter the club was so clumsy that while she has been linked to the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing, it is hard to believe she was a professional spy.

 

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