DOJ-OGR-00010228.pdf

Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 645 Filed 03/11/22 Page 13 of 50 M38TMAX1 1 no because you didn't consider them family. 2 A. Family, yeah. 3 Q. But now you say yes because it would have been a stepbrother. Explain. 4 A. Because by law, by marriage, that person was my stepbrother. So when you read the question that way and it 5 says has a friend or family member ever been accused, then the correct answer would have been yes, a friend or family member. 6 Q. Okay. And so the same response then for 48A is what you would have given for 49B? 7 A. Yes, your Honor. 8 Q. And 49B, if your answer to 49 was yes, do you believe this would affect your ability to serve fairly and impartially as a 9 juror in this case? 10 A. In no case. It would not affect me. 11 Q. In responding a moment ago you said you never thought you would be chosen as a juror in this case. Why is that? 12 A. Only because the sheer volume of people that were there. It was insane, the amount of people. So I just never 13 thought -- number one, I didn't know what it was when I went into it, and then when they played the video of you, I just 14 thought that the likelihood of being chosen, surely they will be interviewing thousands of people. And they ultimately 15 choose twelve people to sit on a jury, and I never thought I would be one of those twelve. SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300 DOJ-OGR-00010228