Adjournment

📄 Adjournment — Friday, October 25, 1996

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TRIAL

▲ Day 3 of 57

◀ Direct examination of Sukru Bozdepe Motion: jury questionnaire release ▶

Date: Friday, October 25, 1996 • Utterances: 11

The judge dismissed the jury for the weekend with standard instructions to avoid all media coverage of the case, including TV dramatizations of the trial. There was a brief exchange about witness scheduling before the court adjourned until Monday, October 28, 1996 at 8:30 AM.

# 1 MR. PETROCELLI:

Resume Monday morning, Your Honor?

# 2 THE COURT:

Ladies and gentlemen, that's all the witnesses that they have for today. I have asked them to tighten up the witness scheduling so that we may have full days. So hopefully, we'll be able to utilize our time a little more efficiently. Have a nice weekend. Again, let me advise you and order you not to talk to anybody about this case. Don't let anybody talk to you about this case. Don't watch anything on the news. If you see something in the newspapers, don't read it, or in magazines, don't read it. And as I said before, you know, you may have some curiosity about what's been going on in the media. Well, please reserve that, and I'll order you to reserve your viewing of those things to a time when this is over. You can have friends or somebody collect these things for you, if you want, but you cannot read them yourselves. All right? And you cannot watch tapes of these things or watch things on television or listen to radio broadcasts about anything connected with this case. Now I'm not quite sure, but I have also been informed that there are various things on television and elsewhere that are attempts to mimic the trial that we're having right now, with actors and things like that. Don't watch those things, either. Remember, everything that you are going to decide this case upon must come from the trial, this trial itself, through your own eyes and ears, and not from any other source. If anybody does intrude upon your privacy, or if anybody tries to talk to you about this case or influence you in any way, please advise the Court immediately; don't wait. I don't want to hear about this occurring two weeks down the line or two months down the line, I want to hear about it immediately, so that we can take corrective action. All right?

# 3 (Nod affirmatively.)

# 4 THE COURT:

Again, your notes will be secure with the bailiff, and they will be locked up. We have specially bolted and locked with steel locks, cabinets where we will be storing your things.

# 5 MR. PETROCELLI:

Your Honor, I submitted a list of witnesses.

# 6 THE COURT:

Yes.

# 7 MR. PETROCELLI:

I'm just awaiting Mr. Baker's estimate on cross-examination.

# 8 THE COURT:

Thank you.

# 9 MR. BAKER:

I lost the list.

MR. P. BAKER: I've got it somewhere.

KEY QUOTE

# 10 THE COURT:

All right. Then we'll be adjourned until Monday, 8:30. Thank you.

# 11 (At 2:14 P.M. an adjournment was taken until Monday, October 28, 1996, at 8:30 A.M.)

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (2)

Hiroshi Fujisaki

I have also been informed that there are various things on television and elsewhere that are attempts to mimic the trial that we're having right now, with actors and things like that. Don't watch those things, either.

Reveals the intense media circus surrounding the civil trial, including dramatizations being aired contemporaneously.

Robert Baker

I lost the list.

Brief moment of levity — defense counsel admitting he misplaced the witness list Petrocelli had submitted.

Notable Exchanges (1)

Daniel Petrocelli•Robert Baker

Petrocelli noted he submitted a witness list and was awaiting Baker's cross-examination estimate; Baker admitted he lost the list.

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Light Moments (1)

Robert Baker

Baker admitted he lost the witness list Petrocelli had submitted.

Witness Demeanor

(Nod affirmatively.)

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 8030 • 11 utterances

Civil Trial

Department 103