Jury instructions and dismissal

📄 Jury instructions and dismissal — Tuesday, December 17, 1996

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TRIAL

▲ Day 33 of 57

Date: Tuesday, December 17, 1996 • Utterances: 10

Judge Fujisaki adjourned the session until the following morning at 8:30 AM. He instructed the jury not to discuss or communicate anything about the case, then ordered the witness on the stand to return the next morning and similarly not to discuss the case overnight.

# 1 THE COURT:

Okay, ladies and gentlemen. We're going to adjourn till tomorrow, 8:30.

Don't talk about the case. Don't form or express any opinions. Do not make any communications about this case, even like you're on this case, to anybody, even if they know.

All right. Everybody understand that? No communications about this case to anybody. Don't let them talk to you.

Okay. See you tomorrow, 8:30.

# 2 THE COURT:

Stay seated.

# 3 (Jurors exit the courtroom.)

# 4 THE COURT:

Okay. Officer, you are ordered back tomorrow, 8:30.

# 5 THE WITNESS:

Yes, sir.

# 6 THE COURT:

You are ordered not to discuss anything connected with this case, with anyone, until you come back tomorrow.

Thanks a lot.

# 7 THE WITNESS:

Thank you, sir.

The reports.

# 8 MR. BAKER:

I'll get them.

# 9 THE WITNESS:

Thank you.

# 10 (At 4:30 P.M., an adjournment was taken until Wednesday, December 18, 1996, at 8:30 A.M.)

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (1)

Hiroshi Fujisaki

No communications about this case to anybody. Don't let them talk to you.

Standard but emphatic jury admonition against outside influence during trial

Evidence (1)

Informal

Reports retrieved by Robert Baker at witness's request

collected by counsel

Witness Demeanor

(Jurors exit the courtroom.)

(At 4:30 P.M., an adjournment was taken until Wednesday, December 18, 1996, at 8:30 A.M.)

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 8699 • 10 utterances

Civil Trial

Department 103