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Document A-5718

AI Analysis

Summary: The witness discusses their firm's receipt and analysis of juror information and research conducted before voir dire. They confirm having access to a specific 2010 suspension opinion related to Catherine M. Conrad, although there is a dispute about when it was shown to them.
Significance: This deposition transcript reveals details about the preparation and information available to the legal team during the pre-voir dire stage, potentially impacting jury selection and trial strategy.
Key Topics: pre-voir dire stage procedures juror list analysis access to specific legal documents
Key People:
  • Theresa Trzaskoma - colleague or team member involved in jury research
  • Dennis Donahue - jury consultant
  • Catherine M. Conrad - subject of a 2010 suspension opinion

Full Text

C2GFDAU1 Brune - direct 261 1 Q. All right. Well, let's talk about the pre voir dire stage. 2 Now, your firm received the juror list from the juror clerk, 3 correct? 4 A. That's my understanding, yes. 5 Q. And your team analyzed it and other information that you 6 all had gathered at that point, correct? 7 A. I think what happened, and I wasn't as close to it as 8 others, is that we received the questionnaires together with 9 the jury list and then started kind of focusing on the 10 questionnaires. But I agree with you that we received both. 11 Q. And the Nardello firm provided to you the results of the 12 research that it was asked to do prior to the start of voir 13 dire, correct? 14 A. That's right. 15 Q. Now, you conceded in your papers that you had in your 16 possession the 2010 suspension opinion related to Catherine M. 17 Conrad prior to the start of voir dire, correct? 18 A. I certainly said that and it's so. 19 Q. And in fact, Theresa Trzaskoma told you and showed you that 20 opinion prior to the start of voir dire, correct? 21 A. I don't think it was prior to the start of voir dire, but 22 it was in the morning before court, maybe some point mid-voir 23 dire, and I don't know that she showed it to me, but we 24 certainly discussed it in the presence of Dennis Donahue, the 25 jury consultant. SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300