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Case 22-1426, Document 58_02/28/2023, 3475901, Page44 of 221 Case 1:20-cr-00330-AJN Document 615-1 Filed 02/24/22 Page 3 of 6 The jury room went dead silent when he shared his story, he told The Independent. David believes this helped the jury understand that it’s possible that these women were telling the truth. You might forget some things, he said, but the core of a traumatic memory stays with you. There were also questions about why the girls kept going back to Epstein and Maxwell, why they accepted their help. “We are not here to judge these victims.” David told The Independent. “We are here to judge whether we believe their stories, but we are not here to judge the decisions they made or didn’t make. “We cannot judge what they did or didn’t do afterward.” he said. “It doesn’t change that it happened.” David felt that the defence were continually attacking the accusers on the stand, and he said these attempts did little to change his mind. At one point, the accuser testifying under the name “Carolyn” threw her binder of evidence down beside her because she was so distressed by the questioning she was being subjected to. “Tt just made me feel more compassion for her.” David said. The juror said that, ultimately, the jury found that all the victims were credible. The defence team focused strongly on its memory expert. Professor Elizabeth Loftus. Loftus testified about experiments that had been conducted in which researchers had successfully implanted a false memory into the mind of research subjects. In one study, the researchers were able to change a detail of a memory about witnessing a car accident. They were able to convince participants that the scene featured a stop sign rather than a vield sign. But that didn’t sway the jury either, David said. DOJ-OGR-00020870