Okay. Let the record show we're in chambers with Mr. Blasier, Mrs. Blasier, Mr. Baker, Mr. Brewer, Mr. Petrocelli, our court staff. And state your name. DEPUTY TYKO: Deputy Tyko T-I-K-O.
Mrs. Tyko, can you relate to me again what occurred? DEPUTY TYKO: This morning, at the morning— Mrs. Blasier—I don't know the lady's name with you—came into the Court with a mike, Mrs. Blasier's mike. I asked—I don't know her name—I keep saying—I asked her if she was recording. She said no. Vickie went up and asked her if she was recording. She said no. We found out this is obviously not a recording device, well here's another one, but they are—they are wireless mikes, and they can broadcast up to a quarter of a mile away. And when I—Mrs. Blasier, this afternoon when I asked her—I told them both that it was a problem to have them in the courtroom. I took them. I said, we'll keep them for you, when we leave, because the other news media have noticed them. Okay. And I took—and I asked you for yours, and the red light was on, which meant it was on. MRS. BLASIER: I could have done that in trying to get it out of my pocket, because it was in kind of tight, (indicating to pants pocket) and I could have flipped it when I was simply taking it out. Because we've been turning them off.
Why do you have them, ma'am? MRS. BLASIER: My agency is Missing Persons and Sensitive Crime Investigations. Lena came out from New York to interview me. She works with America's Most Wanted. I have a lot of my clients on the show, plus I've done some things for it. I do a lot of missing-person cases, especially children, and Lena is doing a segment on me and my work.
So why do you have to have it in this courtroom? MRS. BLASIER: Well, I didn't. It just saved us having to go out to the car when we were talking, like at lunchtime and that.
What's the purpose of this equipment? MRS. BLASIER: Because we are very short in time on her interviewing me on my work.
This is a remote transmitter. Where are you transmitting to? MRS. BLASIER: We did a minute of it, I believe, in the parking lot this morning, and then during lunch, so we could do a few minutes; that was all. And I think that I possibly pushed the button in getting it out of my pocket when I was sitting down. I handed it to her, that's all.
Who receives the transmissions? MRS. BLASIER: The news crew that's with Lena. They were going to do some taping, so that—
Let me ask you this: Where is the news crew located? MRS. BLASIER: Someplace where—wherever they parked. I don't know. And then they met with us at lunchtime for about one minute.
What is her name? MRS. BLASIER: Lena Nozizwe.
THE COURT REPORTER: Can you spell that? MRS. BLASIER: N-o-z-i-w-e.
She's not in the courtroom, so Vickie is going to look for her. MRS. BLASIER: I think she may be in the bathroom. I'm not sure.
Your Honor, Charlotte just told me security was aware, she said these— MRS. BLASIER: This morning when we first got here. When we went through the metal detector, it was beeping. I said oh, it's this, and I took it out, and I said these are hers. She wanted to know if we had—I basically asked him if I needed to leave it out. And he said no, it was okay to take them in, so . . . I didn't think anything of it. And I'm not positive, I think Lena may have even told him what it was.
And you work with Mrs. Blasier? MS. NOZIZWE: I don't work with her. I mean, we're not—we don't work together. I work—I work for Fox Television, America's Most Wanted.
And what is your relationship with her? MS. NOZIZWE: She's somebody who I know and somebody that I'm doing a story about.
Why do you both have them on? MS. NOZIZWE: They're wireless microphones. We were getting recordings of our conversation— conversation as—as we came up to the courtroom, as we came through security, the bailiff—or the deputy did see them. I mean, he saw that I had it and they were turned off. And also, it's not possible for it to have been transmitted because the receiver is outside. And, I mean, nothing was being broadcast inside the courtroom. Nothing was being broadcast, I guess, is what I'm trying to say, or transmitted.
Do both of those belong to you, your firm? MS. NOZIZWE: Yes. Well, not my firm, but the photographer who I'm working with. They belong to him.
Well, one of them was on. MS. NOZIZWE: Right. It was the one that Charlotte had on. We were in earlier and turned them off. When we came in, we came back from lunch, I turned mine off. I don't know that Charlotte—she's not used to necessarily turning on and off, the switch, remembered to turn her's off. But in order for any sound to be recorded, the camera has to be turned on, and it was not turned on, because the audio and video was only taken when we were outside, you know, walking up to the courthouse.
Well, you know the Court can only go on the objective manifestations of what I've been shown. And what I've been shown is that there's two remote transmitters brought into the courtroom, one of which was on when it was observed by the sheriffs. So, regretfully, I'm going to have to exclude you from the proceedings. MS. NOZIZWE: Okay Your Honor.
KEY QUOTEAnd I'm going to have to exclude Mrs. Blasier from the proceedings, as well. Okay. That will be the order.
they are wireless mikes, and they can broadcast up to a quarter of a mile away
I asked you for yours, and the red light was on, which meant it was on
the Court can only go on the objective manifestations of what I've been shown. And what I've been shown is that there's two remote transmitters brought into the courtroom, one of which was on
I could have done that in trying to get it out of my pocket, because it was in kind of tight, and I could have flipped it when I was simply taking it out.