Good morning, counsel. I trust we all had a pleasant holiday weekend. All right. Back on the record in the Simpson matter. Mr. Simpson is again present before the Court with his counsel, Mr. Shapiro, Mr. Cochran, Mr. Blasier, Mr. Neufeld, Mr. Scheck. The People are represented by Mr. Darden and Mr. Goldberg. The jury is not present. Counsel, anything we need to take up before we invite the jurors to join us? Mr. Shapiro, good morning, sir.

Good morning, your Honor. Your Honor, this morning I privately apologized to Mr. Dennis Fung for some remarks that I made outside of Court and I want to publicly apologize to him and to all my friends in the Asian American community, that last week a friend of ours from a Chinese restaurant that we frequent sent us some fortune cookies. They were at the counsel table when I arrived after lunch on Thursday. I had one and offered some to two members of the press and then made a remark which was meant to be facetious and was taken by those who received it as being facetious; however, I understand the sensitivities of people, and in hindsight, those remarks could have been misconstrued as being something other than just in humor and being a pun.

As your Honor knows me for a long period of time, my career has been based on representing individuals who are primarily of minority groups, and I harbor no racial bias towards any group or any community in the world. My heart has been heavy all weekend even if one person has been offended, and for that I sincerely apologize. Mr. Cochran today I understand was also reported as having passed out fortune cookies. He has not. I was the only one responsible. But on behalf of myself and Mr. Cochran, both of us through our careers have built a solid reputation representing minority groups, of which we are both a part, and therefore, if any person or persons was offended, my sincere and most humble apologies are given, and especially to Mr. Fung. Thank you, your Honor.