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  "full_text": "Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 549-1 Filed 12/17/21 Page 20 of 24 32 LB15MAX2\n1 relevant at all.\n2 As the government set forth in its moving papers, the\n3 defendant is not charged with trafficking certain victims and\n4 so whether or not the defendant is guilty of those crimes is\n5 irrelevant before this jury.\n6 THE COURT: Ms. Sternheim, any mention on opening with\n7 respect to this line of --\n8 We will ask everyone please make sure your masks are\n9 on -- counsel, fully on -- unless you are at the podium.\n10 MS. STERNHEIM: Judge, I just want to say that we are\n11 honoring your one counsel rule but we have designated various\n12 topics.\n13 THE COURT: Appreciate it.\n14 MS. STERNHEIM: So if you will allow us?\n15 THE COURT: Go ahead.\n16 MS. MENNINGER: Your Honor, I don't believe that we\n17 will be opening on these issues but I think the government is\n18 understating what is charged in the indictment. They have put\n19 forth an indictment that does not just allege the four main\n20 accusers, rather they have set forth a conspiracy that they\n21 claim involves a number of other unnamed individuals, and I\n22 believe they have proffered an intent to put other evidence\n23 about unnamed individuals in their exhibits, in their trial\n24 testimony. For example, there are a number of exhibits that\n25 they've set forth that come from a time period outside of the\nSOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300",
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      "content": "1 relevant at all.\n2 As the government set forth in its moving papers, the\n3 defendant is not charged with trafficking certain victims and\n4 so whether or not the defendant is guilty of those crimes is\n5 irrelevant before this jury.\n6 THE COURT: Ms. Sternheim, any mention on opening with\n7 respect to this line of --\n8 We will ask everyone please make sure your masks are\n9 on -- counsel, fully on -- unless you are at the podium.\n10 MS. STERNHEIM: Judge, I just want to say that we are\n11 honoring your one counsel rule but we have designated various\n12 topics.\n13 THE COURT: Appreciate it.\n14 MS. STERNHEIM: So if you will allow us?\n15 THE COURT: Go ahead.\n16 MS. MENNINGER: Your Honor, I don't believe that we\n17 will be opening on these issues but I think the government is\n18 understating what is charged in the indictment. They have put\n19 forth an indictment that does not just allege the four main\n20 accusers, rather they have set forth a conspiracy that they\n21 claim involves a number of other unnamed individuals, and I\n22 believe they have proffered an intent to put other evidence\n23 about unnamed individuals in their exhibits, in their trial\n24 testimony. For example, there are a number of exhibits that\n25 they've set forth that come from a time period outside of the",
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