Jury instructions and adjournment

📄 Jury instructions and adjournment — Friday, November 8, 1996

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TRIAL

▲ Day 12 of 57

◀ Examination timeline Court orders: expert witness confidentiality ▶

Date: Friday, November 8, 1996 • Utterances: 10

Judge Fujisaki adjourns court until Tuesday, delivering standard jury admonition instructions about not discussing the case or consuming media coverage. He briefly reprimands the audience for disruptive behavior before completing the adjournment.

# 1 THE COURT:

Ladies and gentlemen, we'll adjourn until Tuesday at 8:30.

Let me remind you not to talk about this case among yourselves.

# 2 THE BAILIFF:

We are still on the record. The judge is still on the bench.

# 3 (Pause in the proceedings.)

# 4 THE COURT:

You know, if you can't maintain yourself in the audience, you are going to be out of here.

KEY QUOTE

# 5 (Indicating to audience.)

# 6 THE COURT:

Ladies and gentlemen, you're not to talk about this case among yourselves or with anybody else; not to form or express any opinions about this case; not to watch anything on television, listen to anything on the radio, read anything in the press. Don't watch any re-enactments, nothing connected with this case.

Jay Leno has a skit. Don't watch it. Okay?

Everybody understand that.

# 7 JURORS:

Yes.

# 8 THE COURT:

It's very important that you comply with it. And if anybody pressures you about talking about this case or anything like that, please be sure to let me know.

Okay. Have a nice weekend. We will see you Tuesday morning at 8:30.

# 9 JURORS:

Thank you.

# 10 (At 4:31 P.M. a recess was taken Until Tuesday, October 12, 1996 at 8:30 A.M.)

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (2)

Hiroshi Fujisaki

Jay Leno has a skit. Don't watch it. Okay?

Unusually specific instruction revealing the trial's cultural saturation in late-night comedy, and Fujisaki's characteristically blunt delivery.

Hiroshi Fujisaki

You know, if you can't maintain yourself in the audience, you are going to be out of here.

Shows Fujisaki's tight control over the courtroom and willingness to remove spectators.

Notable Exchanges (1)

Hiroshi Fujisaki•The Bailiff

The bailiff notes the judge is still on the bench after an apparent premature adjournment attempt, prompting Fujisaki to address audience misconduct before completing instructions.

procedural

Light Moments (1)

Hiroshi Fujisaki

Judge specifically calls out Jay Leno by name, telling jurors not to watch his OJ-related skit

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 8202 • 10 utterances

Civil Trial

Department 103