mirror-epstein-docs/results/IMAGES005/DOJ-OGR-00013879.json

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  "full_text": "Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 761 Filed 08/10/22 Page 20 of 246 2315 LCGVMAX1\n\n1 MS. STERNHEIM: The timing on this witness is that the witness has COVID. So the witness will not be here unless the Court permits his testimony to be versus via WebEx. And I have cited another case in this district where I, in fact, was sent to London when a government witness was too ill to come to the district. And certainly given what the courts have been utilizing through COVID, there certainly is a legitimate basis for that request.\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6\n7\n8\n9 He cannot travel. He is quarantined. Provided he is not incapacitated -- and I understand he would be able to give testimony from his home -- that would be the request, if the government was not willing to work out a stipulation based upon the declaration that had been disclosed orally and had been provided in written form.\n10\n11\n12\n13\n14\n15 MR. ROHRBACH: Your Honor, assuming the Court lets in the testimony at all, the government is not going to agree to a stipulation. We think this witness needs to be subject to cross-examination. It may be possible -- I know the Court has done before a procedure by which a witness can testify by WebEx, but the Court would have to make certain findings first. As part of that, we think that the witness would have to produce the positive COVID test to demonstrate to the Court --\n16\n17\n18\n19\n20\n21\n22\n23 THE COURT: I thought the letter said that you've got that.\n24\n25 MS. STERNHEIM: I do, but I didn't think it was\n\nSOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300\n\nDOJ-OGR-00013879",
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      "content": "MR. ROHRBACH: Your Honor, assuming the Court lets in the testimony at all, the government is not going to agree to a stipulation. We think this witness needs to be subject to cross-examination. It may be possible -- I know the Court has done before a procedure by which a witness can testify by WebEx, but the Court would have to make certain findings first. As part of that, we think that the witness would have to produce the positive COVID test to demonstrate to the Court --",
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