Exhibit A 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS

DALLAS DIVISION

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, §

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Plaintiff, §

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v. § NO. 3:19-CR-245-M

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TIMOTHY BERNARD TANNER, §

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Defendant. §

ORDER REGARDING PROTOCOLS FOR JURY SELECTION AND TRIAL

The Court held a hearing on May 27, 2020, to discuss jury selection and trial protocols. 

This Order formalizes the protocols discussed at that hearing.

Jury selection will occur in the jury room of the Earle Cabell Federal Building.1

 The 

Court sent detailed juror questionnaires to potential jurors. As discussed at the hearing, the 

parties conferred and agreed to excuse many of the jurors in advance of voir dire, thus

minimizing the number of people who will need to appear in person. The remaining jurors 

appearing in person will be spaced to maintain at least six feet of distance between each person. 

To facilitate that spacing, the jurors will be separated into groups, with one group at a time 

coming into the jury room for voir dire at different scheduled times. All jurors will wear gloves

and face shields during voir dire. All other participants will wear gloves and face shields or 

masks.

During trial, everyone in the courtroom will wear gloves and face shields or masks, 

except the witness on the stand. To testify, witnesses will sit in the jury box, and will be behind 

1 The Court offered to conduct jury selection remotely via a web-based platform, making arrangements for any juror 

who did not have the technological capability to access the platform, but the Defense objected.

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a rolling plexiglass screen. Additional plexiglass screens will be available in the courtroom as 

necessary.

Witnesses will enter and leave via the jury room to minimize contact with other 

participants. The jury will be seated in the gallery, at least six feet apart from one another.2 The 

lectern for counsel will be facing the gallery. The Court will allow defense counsel to use the 

interpreter headsets in the courtroom to communicate with the Defendant while maintaining 

adequate distance between one another. 

The jury will take breaks and deliberate in a spacious, nearby courtroom that will allow 

jurors to remain much more than six feet apart at all times. Exhibits will not be passed to the 

jury, but may be displayed on screens throughout the courtroom. For deliberations, counsel shall 

provide a computer with nothing on it and a thumb drive containing electronic versions of the 

exhibits so that the foreperson can display exhibits on a screen as necessary.

SO ORDERED.

May 28, 2020.

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BARBARA M. G. LYNN

CHIEF JUDGE

2 The Court will also allow spectators to sit in the gallery if it is possible to do so while maintaining six feet of distance 

between everyone at all times. If necessary for social distancing, the Court will make another room in the courthouse 

available for spectators and will simulcast the proceedings to that location.

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