📄 Closing remarks and adjournment — Tuesday, November 5, 1996
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Closing remarks and adjournment

Date: Tuesday, November 5, 1996 • Utterances: 5
Petrocelli informed the court that the plaintiff's next witness was traveling from New York and would not be available until the following day. Judge Fujisaki adjourned the session early, noting that it was Election Day and reminding jurors to vote before polls closed, then issued standard admonition before dismissing them until the next morning.
1 MR. PETROCELLI:

Your Honor, we, at this point, would like to call our next witness, who is on a plane from New York. He'll be here this evening.

This may be a good time; otherwise, we can proceed to read in some other criminalist's trial testimony from some other photographs. We would prefer to wait until the morning, but it's up to you.

2 THE COURT:

Jurors, you get a chance to vote yet today?

KEY QUOTE
3 JURORS:

No.

4 THE COURT:

Well, jury, hopefully, you can make it to the polls by the time it's closed.

Again, don't talk about the case; don't form or express any opinions; don't let anybody talk to you about it; don't watch anything on TV, newspaper, or on the radio.

Okay. Thank you.

5 (At 4:10 P.M., an adjournment was taken until Wednesday, November 6, at 8:30 A.M.)

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (1)

Hiroshi Fujisaki
Jurors, you get a chance to vote yet today?
Rare moment of personal informality from Fujisaki; acknowledges it is Election Day (November 5, 1996) during trial proceedings.

Notable Exchanges (1)

Daniel PetrocelliHiroshi Fujisaki
Petrocelli requested an early adjournment due to the next witness being in transit from New York; Fujisaki accommodated without objection.
procedural

Light Moments (1)

Hiroshi Fujisaki
Judge Fujisaki asked the jury if they had voted yet, noting it was Election Day and expressing hope they could make it to the polls before closing.

Objections

None recorded
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