📄 Housekeeping: admission requests — Friday, December 6, 1996
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Housekeeping: admission requests

Date: Friday, December 6, 1996 • Utterances: 25
Plaintiffs' counsel moved a batch of requests for admission and several exhibits into evidence as housekeeping at the start of a session. Defense objected to the requests for admission as cumulative and as mere pleadings, but the court overruled and received all items.
1 MR. PETROCELLI:

Thank you, Your Honor. Got some exhibits to --

2 MR. GELBLUM:

Some housekeeping, Your Honor.

The request for admission that I read to the jury yesterday, we'd like to mark, as we did before, and move into evidence next in order.

3 THE CLERK:

2236.

4 MR. GELBLUM:

36 -- 2236 would be request for admission, and the response to number 484.

And then we have consecutive ones: 493 through 501, which would be the next nine in order.

5 MR. BAKER:

Object to them in evidence as cumulative and pleadings.

KEY QUOTE
6 MR. GELBLUM:

They were received in evidence before; we did them on the blood ones.

KEY QUOTE
7 THE COURT:

They're received.

8 (The instrument herein described as Request for Admission No. 484 was marked for identification and received in evidence as Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 2236.)
9 (The instrument herein described as Request for Admission No. 493 was marked for identification and received in evidence as Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 2237.)
10 (The instrument herein described as Request for Admission No. 494 was marked for identification and received in evidence as Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 2238.)
11 (The instrument herein described as Request for Admission No. 495 was marked for identification and received in evidence as Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 2239.)
12 (The instrument herein described as Request for Admission No. 496 was marked for identification and received in evidence as Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 2240.)
13 (The instrument herein described as Request for Admission No. 497 was marked for identification and received in evidence as Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 2241.)
14 (The instrument herein described as Request for Admission No. 498 was marked for identification and received in evidence as Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 2242.)
15 (The instrument herein described as Request for Admission No. 499 was marked for identification and received in evidence as Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 2243.)
16 (The instrument herein described as Request for Admission No. 500 was marked for identification and received in evidence as Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 2244.)
17 (The instrument herein described as Request for Admission No. 501 was marked for identification and received in evidence as Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 2245.)
18 MR. GELBLUM:

And finally on that, some exhibits that had not been moved in previously during Plaintiffs' case. We have exhibits 293, 296, 320, 1302, and 2057. We would move those into evidence.

19 MR. BAKER:

We reserve, Your Honor.

20 THE COURT:

Okay.

You may proceed.

21 (The instrument herein described was received in evidence as Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 293.)
22 (The instrument herein described was received in evidence as Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 296.)
23 (The instrument herein described was received in evidence as Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 320.)
24 (The instrument herein described was received in evidence as Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 1302.)
25 (The instrument herein described was received in evidence as Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 2057.)

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (3)

Robert Baker
Object to them in evidence as cumulative and pleadings.
Defense's standing objection to requests for admission being admitted as evidence, arguing they are procedural documents rather than substantive proof.
Peter Gelblum
They were received in evidence before; we did them on the blood ones.
Plaintiffs invoke prior precedent from earlier in trial to justify admitting these admissions, linking them to the blood evidence thread.
Hiroshi Fujisaki
They're received.
Summary overrule — the judge disposes of the objection in two words.

Evidence (7)

Plaintiffs' 2236
Request for Admission No. 484 and response
marked and received
Plaintiffs' 2237–2245
Requests for Admission Nos. 493–501 (nine consecutive)
marked and received
Plaintiffs' 293
Previously unreceived exhibit from plaintiffs' case (contents unspecified in transcript)
received
Plaintiffs' 296
Previously unreceived exhibit from plaintiffs' case (contents unspecified in transcript)
received
Plaintiffs' 320
Previously unreceived exhibit from plaintiffs' case (contents unspecified in transcript)
received
Plaintiffs' 1302
Previously unreceived exhibit from plaintiffs' case (contents unspecified in transcript)
received
+ 1 more

Notable Exchanges (1)

Peter GelblumRobert BakerHiroshi Fujisaki
Baker objected to admitting requests for admission as cumulative and mere pleadings; Gelblum cited prior precedent from blood-evidence admissions earlier in trial; Fujisaki overruled in two words.
procedural

Objections

1 objections (0 sustained, 1 overruled)
Proceeding 8519 • 25 utterances
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