Jury Trial - Preliminaries/Sandoval Ruling

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1 jury room.

2 (Juror exits the robing room.)

3 THE COURT: Anything anybody wants to put on the

4 record about that?

5 MR. STEINGLASS: No.

6 MR. BLANCHE: No.

7 THE COURT: Are you comfortable with her staying

8 on the jury?

9 MR. STEINGLASS: Yes.

10 MS. HOFFINGER: Yes.

11 (END OF INQUIRY.)

12 (In open court.)

13 THE COURT: We are back on the record.

14 Juror number nine is going to remain with us. So

15 that's not going to be an issue.

16 Again, just a couple of housekeeping matters.

17 One of the issues that were raised at the end of

18 last week had to do with the limiting instruction regarding

19 Michael Cohen's guilty plea to FICA violations.

20 The People submitted a version. The defense

21 submitted a version. I reviewed them both and, ultimately,

22 I drafted my own, which is really, it's consistent with

23 what I would normally do.

24 So let me hand it down. You can take a look at

25 it, let me know if you have an objection to it. There is

Susan Pearce-Bates, RPR, CCR, RSA

Principal Court Reporter