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to get ready for this trial? >> you already have your opening statement written, you're practicing it. you want to tell the jury a story. >> are you tweaking it based on who the jurors are now? >> absolutely. so you've got engineers. you've got lawyers. chris, when i was a prosecutor doing public corruption cases, i never wanted lawyers on my jury for the reasons that alan described, the concern is that other jurors will look to them as experts on the law rather than the judge. the prosecution is also worried that lawyers will have too high a standard about what proof beyond a reasonable doubt is. there's the same concern about scientists. there's an engineer on the jury. so yeah, you're tweaking your opening statement based on who these people are. and, again, six new jurors have been selected today. there's going to be a lot of investigation, googling, looking at social media for these six new folks over the weekend to see if there are any biases that