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20 21 22 23 Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 427 Filed 11/09/21 Page5of16 the case, and the information will not affect whether or not you are selected to serve as a juror in this case. Finally, the form will be destroyed at the conclusion of trial. To conduct the next phase of the process, I will ask each of you some questions individually. We’ll do that in a separate courtroom where I and the lawyers and the Defendant are sitting now. You all will be brought in the courtroom one at a time. Bear in mind that this is a public courtroom. To protect your privacy, I will only refer to you by your juror number. Please do not state any identifying information. For example, if we talk about your job you could say that you are a sales clerk at a large retail store, without stating the specific name of your employer. This is to protect your privacy. Even with those privacy protections in place, if there is something that would be too difficult or embarrassing for you to say on the public record, please let me know. And please keep in mind that if you are selected as a juror, we will continue to refer to you only by your juror number throughout the process. Now, if you are selected as a juror, your job is going to be to listen to the evidence and to my instructions on the law and to make a determination that's based only on the law. So I want to speak to you generally about some things to keep in mind. The first thing is, as Ms. Maxwell sits here now, she's presumed to be innocent. She is presumed innocent until and only if the jury finds that she is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. As I just explained to you, she's been indicted for a number of crimes, but an indictment is just an accusation. It is not evidence and it doesn't mean that Ms. Maxwell is guilty of anything. You can't assume that she is guilty or more likely to be guilty just because she's been charged in an indictment and alleged to have committed the crimes charged.~with commiting these-crimes- That's the reason we have trials, to determine whether the Government can prove a defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. A defendant in a criminal case does not have to prove that she DOJ-OGR-00006316