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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 642 Filed 03/11/22 Page 14 of 66 again. Jd. at 13. The defense responded in part that "asking the questions live when the jurors' reactions, hesitations, explanations can be explored by the Court and observed by the parties will aid in the selection of an impartial and fair jury." Jd. The Court denied the defense's request. Juror No. 50 appeared for his voir dire on November 16. Because Juror No. 50 answered “no” to all the relevant questions about sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment and being the victim of a crime, his voir dire was very brief, spanning just seven pages of transcript. TR 11/6/2021, pp 128-34; EXHIBIT 2. The Court did not ask Juror No. 50 whether the abuse he suffered would make it difficult to be a fair and impartial juror, whether he would be biased against Ms. Maxwell, whether he could set aside any bias he might have, or whether he could fairly and impartially evaluate Ms. Maxwell’s defense, which challenged, in part, the reliability of her accusers’ memories. As to the questions the Court did ask (most of which addressed his personal background), Juror No. 50 was not always truthful. For example, the Court asked Juror No. 50 if he used social media. Juror No. 50 said that he recently ended a relationship so he “deleted them” and was “fully off it nght now.” TR 11/16/2021, p 133. Asked “[w]hat do you use, Facebook, Twitter,” Juror No. 50 answered, “I used Facebook and Instagram,” but he did not mention any Twitter account. Jd. (emphasis added). Juror No. 50 said he deleted his accounts the week before. Jd. In fact, as described below, Juror No. 50 had a Twitter account (created in April 2021) that he did not delete, and he used the account to Tweet about the interviews he gave following this case and to communicate directly to Annie Farmer. DOJ-OGR-00009706