Yesterday, in a ruling, Judge Preska granted the government’s eleventh-hour motion for an anonymous jury. The government requested three things with respect to the jury:
1) the potential jurors on the voir dire panel, and the jurors and alternates selected for the petit jury, not reveal their names, addresses, or places of employment;
2) during trial, the jurors be kept together during recesses and taken to or provided lunch as a group each by the United States Marshals Service; and
3) at the beginning and end of each trial day, the jurors be transported together by the United States Marshals Service between the courthouse and an undisclosed central location, at which they can assemble from, or leave for, their respective communities.
