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C2grdau2 Brune - direct 309 1 MR. SHECHTMAN: I do, your Honor. Would it be an 2 appropriate time to take a short break? 3 THE COURT: Yes, it would be. 4 MS. DAVIS: I apologize, your Honor. I lost track of 5 the time. 6 THE COURT: It's all right. We'll take a ten-minute 7 recess and resume. 8 (Recess) 9 THE COURT: Mr. Shechtman, you may inquire. 10 MR. SHECHTMAN: Thank you, Judge. 11 CROSS-EXAMINATION 12 BY MR. SHECHTMAN: 13 Q. Ms. Brune, when your firm exercised its challenges for 14 cause and its peremptory challenges, did you believe Catherine 15 Conrad, Juror No. 1, was a suspended lawyer? 16 A. No. 17 Q. Why not? 18 A. During the voir dire we believed that her sworn responses 19 to Judge Pauley's questions ruled that out. 20 Q. If you had believed that she was a suspended lawyer, indeed 21 a suspended lawyer with an alcohol dependency, would you have 22 wanted her on the jury? 23 A. No. 24 Q. Why not? 25 A. First of all, the case involved lawyers, and I think that SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300 DOJ-OGR-00010049