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  "full_text": "Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 459 Filed 11/15/21 Page 26 of 43 26 LalWmaxC\na summary voir dire; it will be probing.\nEven if a juror were somehow exposed to a specific media report on the questionnaire, the juror would be sworn to report that exposure. The questionnaire and voir dire are designed to unearth that kind of prior exposure and any resulting potential bias.\nNor is it clear what prejudice results from that possibility. As I said, I am not persuaded that in the off chance there's a juror who has the questionnaire or a media reporter has the questionnaire in advance and fails to disclose that, it's somehow prejudiced in their response to a question.\nIf a juror's going to lie and be dishonest, we will smoke that out, and the fact of this questionnaire being publicly docketed is not going to increase or decrease any such likelihood.\nMoreover, as I said, the proposed exact questionnaires are in my experience regularly docketed, including in comparably high-profile cases. Again, in Judge Donnelly's case just very recently, so similar nature of charges, similar high-publicity media attention, in an age of social media and the like, she docketed the proposed her addressed questionnaire in advance of jury selection, as I understand it. And I'm not aware of counterexamples.\nLastly, defense does not articulate any likely prejudice that distinguishes this from the public docketing of other pretrial materials already on the docket or that will be\nSOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300 DOJ-OGR-00006998",
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