During jury selection, Judge Holwell had passed out fifty-two questions for members of the jury pool.
Judge Holwell moved an alternate into her spot, and told the jurors to start over.
But Judge Holwell dismissed Mr. Streeter's objection partly out of concern for the juror's privacy.
Now, said legal observers, the government can look back at Judge Holwell's rulings through a different lens.
Judge Holwell then dismissed her for health reasons, rejecting pleas from prosecutors to let the 11 jurors continue.
Judge Richard Holwell is presiding over the case against Raj Rajaratnam in the largest insider trading case in decades.
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Justin Holwell stripped and posed naked on the fourth plinth during his one-hour slot from 1400 BST on Sunday.
He complained to police but Mr Holwell was not taken off the plinth.
U.S. District Judge Richard Holwell issued the sentence, which is sending a loud and clear message of deterrence to Wall Street.
Rajaratnam, and the trial will be conducted by U.S. District Judge Richard Holwell, who predicts the trial will last ten weeks.
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After one juror fell ill and had to leave the panel, Judge Holwell decided to question a potential replacement juror in his private office.
Mr Holwell, 24, from Loughborough in Leicestershire, said he confirmed with event producer Artichoke that he would be permitted to undress while on the plinth.
Judge Holwell is noted for being tough on insider trading violators.
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Holwell, who is overseeing the case, that they could play 173 secretly recorded telephone conversations between Mr. Rajaratnam and his associates, some of whom are his supposed co-conspirators.
But Mr Williams-Thomas, a former Surrey Police detective constable, said his three children, aged between eight and 13 years old, were "very shocked and embarrassed" by Mr Holwell's nudity.
In what appeared to be two possible rebukes of the government, Judge Holwell twice declined to allow transcripts of wiretapped conversations into the jury deliberations, even after the jurors requested them.
Holwell, Anil Kumar, the McKinsey consultant, walked to the witness stand, where he stood for a moment, in a dark suit and tie, and bowed his head, his hands clasped before him.
U.S. District Judge Richard Holwell disclosed a 15-page juror questionnaire that included questions like: Does anyone think that evidence about wealthy individuals and multimillion-dollar transactions will make it difficult for you to decide the case fairly?
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