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  "full_text": "Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 615-1 Filed 02/24/22 Page 3 of 6\n\nThe jury room went dead silent when he shared his story, he told The Independent.\n\nDavid believes this helped the jury understand that it's possible that these women were telling the truth.\n\nYou might forget some things, he said, but the core of a traumatic memory stays with you.\n\nThere were also questions about why the girls kept going back to Epstein and Maxwell, why they accepted their help.\n\n\"We are not here to judge these victims,\" David told The Independent. \"We are here to judge whether we believe their stories, but we are not here to judge the decisions they made or didn't make.\"\n\n\"We cannot judge what they did or didn't do afterward,\" he said. \"It doesn't change that it happened.\"\n\nDavid felt that the defence were continually attacking the accusers on the stand, and he said these attempts did little to change his mind.\n\nAt one point, the accuser testifying under the name \"Carolyn\" threw her binder of evidence down beside her because she was so distressed by the questioning she was being subjected to.\n\n\"It just made me feel more compassion for her,\" David said.\n\nThe juror said that, ultimately, the jury found that all the victims were credible.\n\nThe defence team focused strongly on its memory expert, Professor Elizabeth Loftus. Loftus testified about experiments that had been conducted in which researchers had successfully implanted a false memory into the mind of research subjects.\n\nIn one study, the researchers were able to change a detail of a memory about witnessing a car accident. They were able to convince participants that the scene featured a stop sign rather than a yield sign.\n\nBut that didn't sway the jury either, David said.\n\nDOJ-OGR-00009171",
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