11.Juror Counseling and Illness Requests; Trial Scheduling
34 lines(Discussion at sidebar and out of the hearing of the public:)
MR. BRUCK: We have two matters for the record, your Honor. One is we read in the Boston Globe this morning that the jurors are being afforded counseling after the trial, and this -- we did not know anything about this. Of course we have no position about it except that we wanted to inquire as to whether the jurors have been informed already.
THE COURT: I don't believe they have. I'll find that out.
MR. BRUCK: Can we determine that?
THE COURT: I'll find that out.
MR. BRUCK: Okay. And so we'll check back with the Court on that.
The second is that we would like the record to reflect which juror was sick last week, if that can be done.
THE COURT: Does it matter?
MR. BRUCK: It could.
MS. CONRAD: Especially if there's a repeat.
MS. CLARKE: We just think the record should be clear as to who was sick.
THE COURT: Let me think about that. I don't know whether that's necessary.
MS. CLARKE: Okay.
THE COURT: Okay. As long as I have you here, what I'm interested in is proposals for jury verdict slips, instructions from both of you.
MR. WEINREB: Yes, we're almost done. We'll submit them today.
THE COURT: Give me a little bit of a preview. We have a full day tomorrow. What does the rest of the week look like?
MS. CLARKE: Okay. We were just trying to list out tomorrow's witnesses.
THE COURT: I would like it as soon as you can, at the end of the day, witnesses, exhibits for tomorrow.
MS. CLARKE: Okay.
THE COURT: But anyway, after tomorrow.
MS. CLARKE: After tomorrow? Well, that's a test. Could I send -- tomorrow we have --
THE COURT: I'm just trying to get a gross schedule. When do you think you're going to finish?
MS. CLARKE: We should go -- we may go over into Thursday.
THE COURT: I'm beginning to get that feeling. That's why I was trying to --
MS. CLARKE: And depending on a couple of witness decisions, it will go into Thursday. I think you can't count on being done Wednesday. Not to be cagey, I just --
THE COURT: No, no, I understand. So if you were to have, what, half a morning on Thursday, a full morning on Thursday?
MS. CLARKE: It could be depending on a couple of judgment calls we haven't yet made.
THE COURT: Right. I just want to know how much the government will have.
MR. WEINREB: Your Honor, we think we'll have a day or two.
THE COURT: All right. So we're going to get evidence into next week is what it looks like at this stage.
MR. WEINREB: If it's all right by the Court, we would prefer to begin our rebuttal case on Monday. It would give us some time to get our ducks in a row.
THE COURT: Let's see where we are. I mean, we've done that before for the defendant.
(In open court:)
THE COURT: All right. We'll be in recess.
(The Court exits the courtroom and the proceedings adjourned at 2:49 p.m.)