342.pdf
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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 342 Filed 10/13/21 Page1of17 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK UNITED STATES OF AMERICA S2 20 Cr. 330 (AJN) Vv. GHISLAINE MAXWELL, Defendant. MEMORANDUM OF LAW IN SUPPORT OF GHISLAINE MAXWELL’S MOTION FOR INDIVIDUAL SEQUESTERED JUROR VOIR DIRE AND LIMITED COUNSEL-CONDUCTED VOIR DIRE Christian R. Everdell COHEN & GRESSER LLP 800 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 212-957-7600 Jeffrey S. Pagliuca Laura A. Menninger HADDON, MORGAN & FOREMAN P.C. 150 East 10th Avenue Denver, CO 80203 303-831-7364 Bobbi C. Sternheim Law Offices of Bobbi C. Sternheim 225 Broadway -Suite 715 New York, NY 10007 212-243-1100 Attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell DOJ-OGR-00005206
Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 342 Filed 10/13/21 Page 2of17 INTRODUCTION Defendant Ghislaine Maxwell submits this memorandum of law in support of her motion for individual sequestered voir dire of prospective jurors and limited attorney-conducted voir dire. PRELIMINARY STATEMENT The Court has already determined that a juror questionnaire is appropriate in this case. Pursuant to the Court’s order, the parties recently submitted, under seal, a joint proposed jury questionnaire. The Court has scheduled three days for prospective jurors to complete the final Court-approved questionnaire, and four days to conduct examination of prospective jurors. But a questionnaire by itself is not sufficient in this case to root out potential juror bias and to permit the attorneys to exercise intelligent peremptory challenges. Supplementing a robust questionnaire with individual sequestered voir dire and limited examination of jurors by counsel is necessary in this case because of the sensitive subject matter of the charges and two types of unfairly prejudicial media attention: (i) the pretrial publicity that this case has received and will continue to receive throughout the duration of the trial and (ii) the extensive prior negative publicity concerning Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey …
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