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1 surprising and shocking to hear what a member of the jury had
2 to say.
3 I think when I first called Susan, we spoke about the
4 letter and that was our first conversation of that letter.
5 Q. And in that first conversation did you and Ms. Brune
6 discuss the feeling that what had been -- or after you received
7 the letter or reviewed the other document, that that related to
8 the exact same issue that Theresa Trzaskoma related to you on
9 May 12. When did you put that together?
10 MR. GAIR: Objection to the form of the question.
11 Unintelligible.
12 THE COURT: Sustained as to form.
13 Q. At some point did you connect the dots as to what Theresa
14 Trzaskoma told you on May 12 and the jury letter that you
15 received?
16 A. What happened next was that it took me, I sat in my office
17 for a while mulling over the letter. I then was speaking later
18 that afternoon with my partner Randy Kim in our San Francisco
19 office. I mentioned I found the note, the letter, it was very
20 disturbing to me. The tone was very odd, there are all these
21 exclamation points, the underlining, the parentheticals with
22 her speaking to herself, commenting on her own words, and it
23 just seemed so at odds with what I had observed of Juror No. 1
24 during the trial.
25 He's the one who mentioned to me, he said, well, come
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