Adjournment

📄 Adjournment — Tuesday, October 29, 1996

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TRIAL

▲ Day 5 of 57

◀ Cross-examination of Dennis Fung Scheduling matters ▶

Date: Tuesday, October 29, 1996 • Utterances: 12

The court session ended with a witness placed on call and an adjournment until Thursday, October 31, 1996. Petrocelli informed the judge that four or five plaintiff witnesses had been eliminated to speed up the trial, and that detectives Lange and Vannatter were out of town and unavailable until Thursday morning.

# 1 MR. BAKER:

Your Honor, I'd like the witness to remain on call, in view of the Court's ruling.

# 2 THE COURT:

Witness on call.

# 3 THE WITNESS:

Thank you, Your Honor.

# 4 THE COURT:

Okay.

# 5 MR. PETROCELLI:

Your Honor, we had a discussion in chambers. We are eliminating about four witnesses to speed things up. And the next officers to testify, the two detectives, Detective Lange and Vannatter, are out of town and will be returning tomorrow evening. They can be available Thursday morning.

KEY QUOTE

# 6 THE COURT:

What time?

# 7 MR. PETROCELLI:

First thing, 8:30.

# 8 THE COURT:

Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to not be in session tomorrow, because they've altered their witness scheduling. And they represent to me that they've dispensed with five plaintiffs' witnesses, so I've allowed them to do that. And they're going to call their next witness on Thursday, at 8:30.

Again, let me remind you not to talk about this case, not form or express any opinions, not read anything about it, not watch anything on television about it, not listen to any broadcasts on the radio about it.

You're going to have a whole day free. You can go back to work or whatever.

Do not allow anybody to talk to you about this case. Do not allow anybody to make any comments to you about this case, so you do not make any comments about this case.

Don't go to the scene; don't conduct any investigation; restrict yourself to only the information received in the course of this trial. Everybody understand that?

# 9 JURORS:

Yes.

# 10 THE COURT:

Thank you. We'll see you Thursday, 8:30.

# 11 THE CLERK:

I need that last Exhibit 2106.

# 12 (At 4:16 p.m., an adjournment was taken until Thursday, October 31, 1996, at 8:30 a.m.)

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (2)

Daniel Petrocelli

We had a discussion in chambers. We are eliminating about four witnesses to speed things up.

Reveals active case management decisions to streamline the plaintiff's case mid-trial.

Hiroshi Fujisaki

You're going to have a whole day free. You can go back to work or whatever.

Characteristically direct Fujisaki addressing the jury about the unexpected day off.

Evidence (1)

Exhibit 2106

Unspecified exhibit requested by the clerk at adjournment

collected

Notable Exchanges (1)

Daniel Petrocelli•Hiroshi Fujisaki

Petrocelli explained that Lange and Vannatter were out of town and could testify Thursday at 8:30; Fujisaki confirmed the schedule.

procedural

Light Moments (1)

Hiroshi Fujisaki

Fujisaki tells the jury they have a whole day free and can 'go back to work or whatever'

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 8079 • 12 utterances

Civil Trial

Department 103