A brief sidebar about establishing foundation for photographs taken inside an airplane cabin. Petrocelli began explaining how he planned to authenticate the exhibits through witnesses, but defense attorney Leonard withdrew any objection before Petrocelli could finish, making the whole exercise unnecessary.
# 1 (The following proceedings were held at the bench with the reporter:) # 2 MR. PETROCELLI: Right outside the courtroom we have Howard Bingham, another passenger on the flight. We also have Captain Wayne Stanfield. And from their criminal testimony I believe they've identified these exhibits and Mike Brewer has constituting --
# 3 MR. LEONARD: Save your breath. I don't have any objection.
KEY QUOTE # 4 MR. PETROCELLI: You stipulate that this is the cabin?
# 5 MR. LEONARD: No. You can establish it through the witness if you want. Just --
# 6 MR. PETROCELLI: I don't want to have --
# 7 THE COURT: He's withdrawn his objection.
# 8 MR. LEONARD: Ask him whatever questions you want.
# 9 THE COURT: Why do I have to go through this exercise?
KEY QUOTE # 10 MR. PETROCELLI: You don't.