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C2GFDAU1 Brune - direct 281
1 the same problem of trying to remember what was said versus
2 what was thought, but I think what was discussed is, look, it's
3 not her. She's sworn before Judge Pauley, the note doesn't
4 change the picture and, you know, this is kind of crazy. You
5 can't start sending a private investigator out on a juror. She
6 said she's someone else, she seems like a housewife from
7 Bronxville. It would be unfathomable or inconceivable or
8 something for a person who was in fact a lawyer to have sworn
9 under oath that she was someone else. It was something where
10 we discussed it and concluded that it made no sense, and Juror
11 No. 1 was who she said she was.
12 Q. So just so I'm clear, Ms. Brune, Ms. Trzaskoma did tell you
13 in that conversation that she thought Juror No. 1 could be
14 Catherine Conrad the suspended attorney?
15 A. What she said is that note makes me wonder if it could be
16 the same person.
17 Q. And are you telling me that Ms. Trzaskoma made no mention
18 whatsoever of the Westlaw report that she had found?
19 A. I'm confident that's so, and here's why. Laurie Edelstein
20 is the kind of person who will always kind of say, well, show
21 me the case, she show me the document. She's extremely thorough,
22 and if she had referenced the document in the conversation
23 that's what Ms. Edelstein would have said. So I know that
24 there was no reference to it in the conversation.
25 Q. So even as you're standing there, Ms. Brune, the thought
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