The -- we gave Your Honor, and the defense, a list of witnesses for next week. They include Mr. Simpson. We anticipate that he would have to take the stand on Friday, if the other witness go according to plan.
Mr. Kelly and Mr. Baker had a conversation where apparently there was going to be resistance on the defense making Mr. Simpson available here.
As a courtesy, Mr. Kelly and Mr. Baker are going to go down and talk to the judge in Orange County. They'd like to do that on Monday to see if Mr. Simpson can be excused from that proceeding for a couple of days to testify here; or just generally, talk to the judge about it.
But in any event, I just want to make it clear for the record that we're not a party to that proceeding. We've asked Mr. Simpson to be here and to testify, and I have given advance notice and, I guess, we can take it up with Your Honor if we have a problem.
But we're expecting to see Mr. Simpson in this courtroom some time near the end of next week and maybe a day or so on to the following week.
Now, I will also add that next Friday is dark, I'm told, in the Orange County proceeding. In any event, so that Friday may not present a problem.
The next week we have two court days, Monday and Tuesday, I think, Mr. Simpson in our case. You know he will be on the stand for a couple of days, thereabouts. And then after Mr. Simpson, we have a handful of other witnesses, but they're quite short in duration. And we think the trial, our side of the case, will wrap up not long thereafter.
Well, how about the other witnesses that you have on this list for next week?
How long are they going to be?
Well, all of them are going to be fairly short, except Colin Yamauchi, I'd say, is about a half-a-day witness, and Bill Bodziak is about a half-day witness, sort of like what we had with Dr. Cotton and Dr. Douglas Deedrick.
And the other witnesses that follow Bodziak and Yamauchi are shorter. Some of them are very short. Okay. Kato Kaelin and Alan Park, I would say, are also about half-day witnesses as well.
So I think that if all those witnesses go according to plan, we'll end up coming to Friday, perhaps, and not having any witnesses except for Mr. Simpson.
But it may turn out that those other witnesses take up the whole week. In any event, I wanted to alert the Court to the problem.
In addition, Monday afternoon, Mr. Baker and Mr. Kelly wanted to go down and talk to the Orange County judge. And I wanted to know what the Court's plan was to hold session on Monday or to maybe kick the trial over until Tuesday morning to accommodate their desire to go see the judge.
I'm not going -- we don't have any standing in that case. I just what a clarification whether we're supposed to be here Monday and have trial or not.
MR. P. BAKER: Our point is, Your Honor, it's already been discussed with you, he's been available for four weeks. They put themselves behind this eight ball, and the point is, if we want to be dark Monday afternoon, we can continue with Yamauchi. We don't need to take a down day on Monday and it was my chief belief as of an hour ago that Mr. Bodziak was available Monday afternoon. I guess he's not available Monday afternoon but I would just ask that we be able to do Yamauchi until he's finished on Monday.
Bob Baker has to go down in the afternoon. We can cover the fort here for a couple hours. I don't think we need to be dark on Monday.
Well, in all fairness to the younger Mr. Baker, I've spoken to his father.
What we had discussed was perhaps coming in the morning, taking care of whatever miscellaneous matters we had in the late morning, heading down there, being dark later in the morning and in the afternoon so we could start right on schedule Tuesday and go right through with witnesses.
As Mr. Petrocelli indicated, that if we worked it that way, that it's anticipated that we would be getting to Mr. Simpson on Friday, which is a dark day down in the Orange County proceeding.
But Mr. Baker indicated that he was going to possibly oppose our application for an adjournment and he wanted to be down there with me when the application was made. He agreed that we'd head down there, subject to your approval, late Monday morning, Judge.
How long is that matter supposed to be?
MR. P. BAKER: What I understand, Mr. Petrocelli may know better than I, I'm not very familiar on family law.
I don't mean the Monday session, I think -- how long is that proceeding?
MR. P. BAKER: A week and a half.
My understanding is it may be as long as a month. Mr. Simpson was the first witness down there. He already completed with his testimony. The Court is dark this Friday. It's my understanding there are a couple of independent experts set to testify the following Monday and Tuesday -- Tuesday, which I think arguably really doesn't require Mr. Simpson's presence down there. Just like up here, he hasn't been present on many occasions.
MR. P. BAKER: Judge, that custody battle is very important. They've had four weeks to call him. Now, you've said and ruled that it's up to the Orange County judge. If the Orange County judge makes that determination, then we'd be certainly -- we'd certainly abide by it. But there's no reason to have him pulled out of there if the Orange County judge doesn't find that it's proper.
We brought this up two weeks ago with the court, that he was available and ready to testify and they knew it.
Judge, we made -- we indicated we weren't -- at that time we indicated that we were going to make, at least -- so it's two weeks that the guardianship was going on the week of the 4th and the 11th, and those weeks have come and gone.
He's been down there. If he has his whole week down there once again, and we're just trying to, after three weeks of that case, put the defense on notice, indicate that we've come to our order of proof where we intend to call him and workout an accommodation between this court and the court down there.
Sure. I can get a call, and -- you want me to make a call? I can make a call right from the courtroom.
AUDIENCE MEMBER MANUEL MEDRANO: You know, I know the name of the judge, if you like. Nancy Wiebon Stock, Superior Court.
Wiebon Stock, Superior Court, Orange County.
AUDIENCE MEMBER MANUEL MEDRANO: W-I-E-B-E-N --
we're expecting to see Mr. Simpson in this courtroom some time near the end of next week and maybe a day or so on to the following week
They've had four weeks to call him. Now, you've said and ruled that it's up to the Orange County judge.
You know, I know the name of the judge, if you like. Nancy Wiebon Stock, Superior Court.
She only works four days a week?