📄 Jury admonition and adjournment — Monday, April 17, 1995
📅 Apr 17 — Day 58
⚖️ Lance A. Ito
jury
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TRIAL
▲ Day 58 of 167

Jury admonition and adjournment

Date: Monday, April 17, 1995 • Utterances: 5
Judge Ito briefly addresses three jurors about an unspecified legal matter requiring individual inquiry, assuring them it does not involve any misconduct on their part. He adjourns court for the day rather than keep jurors waiting while he conducts legal research on a second issue that arose. Jurors are instructed not to discuss the matter with one another.
1 (Jurors 1, 2 and 3 entered the courtroom.)
2 THE COURT:

All right. Folks, why don't you take your seats, please, real quickly. Ladies, why don't you be seated. All right. Good afternoon, ladies. As I indicated to you earlier today, there was a legal matter that I needed to talk to you about some problems that I've heard about that aren't necessarily true, but the allegations are serious enough that I need to talk to each one of you individually. Since I decided to do that at 4:30 another legal issue has come up that I need to do some legal research on, and as you know, we have been in trial all afternoon and I haven't had the time to do it, so rather than keep you around and order you back, I'm going to order you not to discuss what we just discussed here. But I do want to put your mind at ease that the issue that I'm talking about does not involve any misconduct on your part or any allegations of that. I have to make inquiry of each individual juror regarding certain things that have been brought to my attention, so it has got nothing to do with you personally, but don't discuss with any of the other jurors as well. All right. Okay. See you back tomorrow.

3 THE COURT:

All right. Thank you, counsel.

4 (Brief pause.)
5 THE COURT:

All right. Tomorrow morning at nine o'clock. Thank you, counsel.

Temperature

procedural

Key Quotes (2)

Lance A. Ito
the issue that I'm talking about does not involve any misconduct on your part or any allegations of that
Judge moves to reassure jurors who may be anxious about being called in individually for questioning
Lance A. Ito
since I decided to do that at 4:30 another legal issue has come up that I need to do some legal research on
Reveals the adjournment is driven by compounding legal issues, not just scheduling

Objections

None recorded
Proceeding 5719 • 5 utterances
Criminal Trial
Department 103
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