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This episode, New Week, New Juror.

Week 6 of testimony in USA v. Sean Cones, open with the judge confirming he will,

definitely dismissed juror number six.

Last week, the prosecution asked to have the juror moved after he allegedly made statements to a court officer suggesting he lived in New Jersey, not the Bronx.

That would make him ineligible to serve on a federal jury in Manhattan.

The defense argued the juror should stay and said the government's request was racially motivated.

The removed juror is black.

The alternate who replaced him is white.

But the judge said the juror's lack of candor raised questions about whether the man was

deliberately deceiving the court to get on the jury, and whether his other answers during

jury selection were also untrue. The judge said Monday morning, there's nothing the juror could say

at this point to put the genie back in the bottom. He also said he took the defense's note about

race seriously, but added, this jury does not raise those concerns.

The new juror has been watching testimony as an alternate from the beginning of the trial.

He's a 57-year-old architect from a New York City suburb and active in the Boy Scouts.

With him, the jury now skews slightly older, more educated, wider, and more suburban.

The government has indicated that it will rest his case as soon as Wednesday, as late as Friday,

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