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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document653_ Filed 04/01/22 Page 10 of 40 limited approach proposed by the Government. The Court also rejected many of the Defendant’s proposed lines of questions. The parties were also permitted to propose follow-up questions at the hearing in light of the Court’s questioning and Juror 50’s responses. The Court accepted some of these proposals and rejected others. Juror 50 testified that his answers to Questions 25, 48, and 49 were not accurate. He explained that when he was nine and ten years old, he was abused on multiple occasions by a stepbrother, who he no longer considered part of the family, and one of the stepbrother’s friends. Hearing Tr. at 8. He disclosed the abuse to his mother when he was in high school. His mother called the police and gave a report, but no charges were brought. /d. at 8-9. Although he first testified that “no” was correct for Question 49 because he did not consider the stepbrother part of his family, upon further questioning from the Court, he acknowledged that the correct answer would have been “yes.” Jd. at 11-13. He similarly acknowledged that “yes (self)” would have been correct to Question 25; although at the time of the questionnaire, he understood the question to be asking about being “robbed or mugged or some sort of crime like that.” Jd. at 9-10. Juror 50 testified that these incorrect answers were an inadvertent mistake and that he had not intentionally failed to disclose his personal history of sexual abuse. /d. at 14-16, 22-23. He explained that he was distracted as he filled out the questionnaire and “completely skimmed way too fast,” leading him to misunderstand the questions. /d. at 14-15. It took several hours to start the questionnaire after a long security line and technical issues with the Court’s instructional video. His mind was preoccupied with a recent romantic breakup and the commotion at the nearby check-out table. He saw other prospective jurors completing their questionnaires and rushed to finish. He explained that he was unconcerned with diligently completing the questionnaire; he assumed due to the sheer “volume” of prospective jurors being screened that it 10 DOJ-OGR-00010333