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Document A-5794

AI Analysis

Summary: The deponent discusses receiving a letter from a juror and connects it to a previous conversation with Theresa Trzaskoma. The letter's tone and content are described as disturbing and odd, differing from the juror's observed behavior during the trial.
Significance: This document potentially reveals irregularities in juror behavior and may be significant in understanding the context of a trial or legal proceeding.
Key Topics: Discussion about a letter received from a juror Connection between the letter and a previous conversation with Theresa Trzaskoma Juror behavior and potential irregularities
Key People:
  • Susan Brune - person being questioned or deposed
  • Theresa Trzaskoma - person who had a conversation with the deponent on May 12
  • Randy Kim - partner of the deponent in the San Francisco office

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C2GFDAU3 Edelstein 337 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 SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300