House Oversight — DOJ production
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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 497 Filed 11/23/21 Page1ofi1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT USDC SDNY SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK DOCUMENT ELECTRONICALLY FILED |} DOC #: DATE FILED: 11/23/21 United States of America, _y_ 20-CR-330 (AJN) Ghislaine Maxwell, ORDER Defendant. ALISON J. NATHAN, District Judge: As discussed at today’s conference, attached is the Court’s draft preliminary instructions for the sworn jury. The Court has considered both parties’ proposed instructions as to the Court’s order that certain witnesses be permitted to testify or be referred to by first name only or pseudonym. Dkt. No. 432. The draft preliminary instructions include a limiting instruction regarding this process. The parties may suggest any proposed edits to the preliminary instructions by letter on or before November 27, 2021, or they shall indicate by that date that they have no objections or suggestions. SO ORDERED. Dated: November 23, 2021 AN \) if New York, New York ALISON J. NATHAN United States District Judge DOJ-OGR-00007453 Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 497 Filed 11/23/21 Page2ofi1 20cr330, United States v. Maxwell DRAFT — November 23, 2021 Preliminary Instructions to the Sworn Jury Order of Trial Now that you have been sworn, let me give you some instructions about your duties as jurors. At the end of the trial I will give you more detailed instructions, and those instructions will control your deliberations in this case. But for now, let me explain how the trial will proceed. The first step in the trial will be opening statements. The government will make an opening statement. After that, I expect the lawyers for the defendant to make an opening statement as well. Those statements are not evidence. They serve no purpose other than to give you an idea in advance of the evidence that the lawyers expect you to hear from the witnesses. Those statements permit the lawyers to tell you a little bit of what the case is all about, but the only evidence comes from the wi […]