of the 50,000 lead sheets in the possession of the FBI and concluded that they could be divided into three categories. These were characterized as (1) "agent-to-agent" communications, (2) calls received at an FBI 800 telephone number from persons offering lay opinions about the possible identities of the men depicted in two composite drawings of possible perpetrators, called John Doe # 1 and John Doe # 2, which had been widely circulated in public media, and (3) a general category of "everything else." The court declined to delay sentencing for the time that would be required for a comprehensive review of the lead sheets.
At a subsequent hearing on March 25, 1998, defense counsel asked for production of all of the lead sheets, then estimated at 40,000 pages, notinganother document had surfaced during the testimony of Mr. Dilly, in the trial's penalty phase on December 31, 1997. Mr. Mackey objected to that request, saying that more than 28,000 witness statements were produced to the defense during discovery as well as all of the grand jury testimony, lab notes and many other records and that all of the 302 reports and inserts resulting from the investigation of all leads were given to the defense. Mr. Mackey reported that he had instructed FBI agents to sort all of the lead sheets into the three categories identified at the February 17 hearing and that a group of 12,000 sheets in the third category were then reviewed by the lawyers on the prosecution team. Mr. Mackey said that the prosecutors