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1 Court know.
2 Q. And you understood that the Court had the resources and
3 ability to get information on its own, correct?
4 A. Oh, yes.
5 Q. And you chose not to bring either what you had found before
6 voir dire or what you had found on March 12th to the Court's
7 attention, correct?
8 A. I made no particular choice relating to May 12th because I
9 didn't know that there was any more out there, but I certainly
10 did not bring the Google search results to the Court.
11 Q. When you were an AUSA, would you have felt an obligation to
12 bring that kind of information to the Court's attention?
13 A. I have the same obligation to the Court now as I did when I
14 was an AUSA and had I believed that that information was
15 accurate, I would have immediately brought it to the Court's
16 attention.
17 Q. But you had no basis to know, Ms. Brune, one way or the
18 other, about the accuracy of the information, correct?
19 A. I believed, based on the juror's sworn statements and the
20 other factors, that she was someone else entirely.
21 Q. Let me ask you this question: In the papers and in court
22 you all -- talking about her, oh, she was a stay at home wife.
23 That does not preclude the possibility that she's an attorney,
24 correct?
25 A. I think that's so. There certainly people who are
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