Exhibit A

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United States District Court

CR 09-01492-PHX-ROS, January 3, 2013 A.M.

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

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United States of America, )

 )

 Plaintiff, )

vs. )

 ) CR 09-01492-PHX-ROS 

Duane Hamblin Slade, et al., )

 ) 

 Defendants. )

 ) Phoenix, Arizona 

 ) January 3, 2013 

 ) 8:44 a.m. 

__________________________________ )

BEFORE: THE HONORABLE JACK ZOUHARY, JUDGE 

REPORTER'S TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS

JURY TRIAL

Day 2 - A.M. SESSION

(Pages 171-290) 

Official Court Reporter: 

Elaine Cropper, RDR, CRR, CCP

Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. Courthouse, Suite 312 

401 West Washington Street, SPC 35 

Phoenix, Arizona 85003-2151 

(602) 322-7249 

Proceedings Reported by Stenographic Court Reporter 

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I don't want to rehash it. I think we've gone around the block

a couple of times. If there's something unclear, I'll be happy

to clarify it. If you have a case for me, please show it to me

as well as opposing counsel. Don't know what else to say.

MR. JONES: Okay. I would rather have a little while

longer to look at that, but I don't think it's going to come up

today.

THE COURT: I suspected.

Anything else?

MR. SEXTON: Judge, I just want to make sure I

understand your style of exhibit entry. It looks like it's

fairly fast in the sense of foundation. They have advanced

notice of the exhibits and the order Weaver presenting them in.

If they have an objection, they will interpose it. I assume

it's the same waive going about this in the sense of saying

look at this exhibit number one. Do you recognize it? I offer

it into evidence. They can stand up at that time.

THE COURT: Oh, boy. No, you were not part of the

conversation I had a while ago with everyone. We're going to

make this easy. Easy for you, easy for the Court, Court

personnel and most of all, easy for the jury.

If you have -- let me go back to page one. You have

had an opportunity to look at each other's exhibits for the

most part. I indicated to you that anyone could display an

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because you are going to let me know ahead of time those

exhibits to which you were going to have an objection. That's

number one.

Number two. If you have an objection to an exhibit

that you believe is upcoming, give me a heads-up. We will take

care of that objection outside the presence of the jury. Now,

I understand sometimes you may not know if you're going to

object because you don't know what the witness is going to say

and I understand that. And for those limited situations, we

will take care of that at sidebar. Admission of exhibits for

the most part, will be done by counsel and Court personnel

without me in the courtroom and without the jury in the

courtroom because you're merely going to read into the record

those exhibits to which there is no objection and you don't

need me. If there are arguments on certain exhibits, please

let me Christine know. We will set aside time during the

course of any day to handle those objections and admissions or

exclusions outside the presence of the jury. I want to

maximize the use of court time while the jury is here. I don't

want them to be bogged down with our administrative issues.

Does that help?

MR. SEXTON: That is helpful.

THE COURT: So that means you just show your own

exhibits to the witness and you don't need to look to opposing

counsel to me or ask to approach or -- just do it? 08:48:46

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MR. SEXTON: As to defense exhibits on cross, we got

some last night at midnight. I hope to be able to review those

during the lunch hour and be able to let you know before the

lunch hour whether we need to discuss any of those. It depends

on -- I'll have to talk with them. Are you really going to put

these in or not. So that's all I wanted to alert you to.

THE COURT: I'm sympathetic to that and, again, I

hope we can do this efficiently without taking up the jurors'

times on matters that we could otherwise take up outside their

presence.

MR. SEXTON: Thank you for the clarifications.

MR. LANZA: Your Honor, one minor administrative

point, somebody on our team tried to --

THE COURT: It's already been taken care of. They

have been allowed to come up with the camera. I don't know

where they are but we did clear with the security. Someone

from the Postal Service.

MR. LANZA: Correct. Thank you.

THE COURT: It's nice to know they have a job.

MR. SEXTON: Nothing more from us, Judge.

THE COURT: What we'll do is I'll go grab some

papers, come back in a couple of minutes. If your first

witness is ready, I think what we'll do is swear in that

witness even before we bring in the jury and so that we can

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