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e 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 362 Filed 10/20/21 Pagelof4 REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS October 20. 2021 1156 15th St. NW, Suite 1020 Washington, D.C. 20005 (202) 795-9300 * www.refp.org BY ECF Bruce D. Brown, Executive Director bbrown@refp.org + (202) 795-9301 . The Honorable Alison J. Nathan STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN STEPHEN I. ADLER United States District Court STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS Southern District of New York WOLF BLITZER CNN United States Courthouse Temple thivesiy AO Foley Square THEODORE J. BOUTROUS, JR. yes oe New York, New York 10007 MASSIMO CALABRESI ae eae Re: United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell, 20 Cr. 330 (AJN) MANNY GARCIA Austin American-Statesman EMILIO GARCIA-RUIZ San Francisco Chronicle Dear Judge Nathan, JOSH GERSTEIN POLITICO ALEX GIBNEY With the government’s consent, the defendant has requested to file the igsaw £roauctions SUSAN GOLDBERG National Geographic . oe . . . oe . . anes Ganannoe parties’ joint proposed juror questionnaire and joint proposed voir dire under seal. The Wall Street Journal LAURA HANDMAN 5 < 1. Davis Wright Tremaine Letter of U.S. Att’y, October 12, 2021 (Dkt. No. 339) (“Letter”). The Reporters DIEGO IBARGUEN Hearst INI Culneeiae Committee for Freedom of the Press and the 17 undersigned news media KAREN KAISER Associated Press DAVID LAUTER organizations respectfully urge the Court to deny the defendant’s request. Globe nA LOW WBUR y ——— ee Newspaper Co. v. Superior Ct. for Norfolk Cty., 457 U.S. 596, 609 n.25 (1982) The McClatchy Company MAGGIE MULVIHILL . F . . Basu Uneven (stating that “representatives of the press and general public must be given an JAMES NEFF The Philadelphia Inquirer ema ai haa opportunity to be heard on the question of their exclusion” (cleaned up)). THOMAS C. RUBIN Stanford Law School % 3 pn BRUCE W. SANFORD Both the common law and the First Amendment afford the public a qualified BakerHostetler, ret. CHARLIE SAVAGE . . . . sosmenu right of access to criminal proceedings. Indeed, the Supreme Court has long JENNIFER SONDAG Bloomberg News NABIHA SYED : . . . . ‘i The Markup recognized that public access to criminal proceedings assures both the fairness and ADAM SYMSO! The E.W. Scripps Company . . . . . ” . . . . RAE TOW legitimacy of the criminal justice system. /d. at 606 (“Public scrutiny of a criminal MATT THOMPSON The New York Times VICKIE WALTON-JAMES NPR JUDY WOODRUFF PBS/The NewsHour SUSAN ZIRINSKY CBS News trial enhances the quality and safeguards the integrity of the factfinding process, HONORARTTPADERSHIP COUNGI. 1 The defendant also has requested that the Court order “individual sequestered juror voir dire and I. SCOTT APPLEWHITE, Associated Press limited counsel-conducted voir dire.” ECF No. 341. The government opposes both requests. CHIP ROR Credions Svaditate ECF No. 355. To the extent that the defendant seeks to limit press and public access to any aspect DAHLIA LITHWICK, Siate i s * . . . a TONY MAURO, American Lawyer Media, rer ©1 VOir dire in this case, the same constitutional and common law presumptions of public access JANE MAYER, The New Yorker discussed herein apply. ANDREA MITCHELL, NBC News CAROL ROSENBERG, The New York Times PAUL STEIGER, ProPublica SAUNDRA TORRY, Freelance Affiliations appear only for purposes of identification. DOJ-OGR-00005269