DOJ-OGR-00008252.pdf

--- Page 1 --- **Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE** **Document 529** **Filed 12/08/21** **Page 8 of 18** **LBF3MAXC** 1. well take that up at sidebar in a moment. And as I said, only 2. if the jurors indicated a specific wish to speak not in public 3. because the answer would embarrass them or otherwise seriously 4. compromise their privacy, other than that, we'll proceed in 5. open court. But with respect to those, I'm doing that to 6. ensure juror candor and honesty and ultimately ensure the 7. selection of a fair and impartial jury. 8. Process-wise, during the questioning, as the juror is 9. answering my questions in the voir dire, if I think a juror 10. answers in a way that would require striking for cause, I'll 11. ask counsel whether they have any objection. Meaning do you 12. have any objection to me striking for cause. Assuming no 13. objection, then I will strike that juror for cause, and they'll 14. be excused and we'll give them instructions. 15. If I don't think that any answer requires a striking 16. for cause before we get to the individual questions at the end 17. of the voir dire, I'll ask counsel if they have specific 18. followup. If you have specific followup, I'll hear you at 19. sidebar, that is, outside the hearing of the juror, consider 20. your request for followup, and then either engage in that 21. followup or not, and proceed apace. 22. If we have a juror for whom there is no basis to 23. strike for cause, at that point, we'll proceed to have them 24. respond to the individual questions in the voir dire. And then 25. they won't be struck, so they'll be given instructions on **SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C.** **(212) 805-0300** **DOJ-OGR-00008252**