Why Was The Government Afraid Of Its Own Indictment?

Should a jury always have an opportunity to read the indictment for the defendant whose fate they are deliberating?  I believe the defendant should always be given the right to decide if the indictment is given to the jury or not.  The reason is that the indictment is a government spin document — literally nothing in the indictment should be accepted as fact, not even background data.  Lots of judges, including Gilmore, routinely do not give the indictment to the jury because defense attorneys routinely object.
 
That’s what makes the EBS situation so fascinating.  Here the defense attorneys moved to place the entire indictment, the core spin document written by the government, into the hands of the jury.  The defense wanted it in the jurors’ hands because it is an inane document and because the government failed to even address the bulk of their accusations.  In other words, the government did not follow the record of their indictment during the trial. 
 
The government, who wrote the document, objected to the jury seeing it.  Gilmore said she would not give the document to the jury because it had bad things about the defendants in it.   What a farce!  The government panicking over its own indictment! 

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