Jury admonition

📄 Jury admonition — Thursday, April 20, 1995

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▲ Day 60 of 167

◀ Cross-examination of Andrea Mazzola (part 2) Transcript matters ▶

Date: Thursday, April 20, 1995 • Utterances: 5

Judge Ito adjourned the afternoon session at 4:30 PM, delivering standard jury admonitions before sending jurors to the jury room briefly. Witness Andrea Mazzola was ordered to return the following morning at 9:00 AM and instructed not to discuss her testimony with anyone except the lawyers.

# 1 (Brief pause.)

# 2 MR. COCHRAN:

It's 4:30.

# 3 MR. NEUFELD:

I thought it was item 430. They were telling me it's 4:30 P.M.

# 4 THE COURT:

That's why I have clocks all over the courtroom. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to take our recess for the afternoon. Please remember all of my admonitions to you; do not discuss this case amongst yourselves, don't form any opinions about the case, do not conduct any deliberations until the matter has been submitted to you, do not allow anybody to communicate with you with regard to the case. However, I'm going to ask you to step back in the jury room briefly before we recess as far as the jury is concerned. And, Miss Mazzola, you may step down. You are ordered to return tomorrow morning 9 o'clock. Don't discuss your testimony with anybody except for the lawyers. Thank you very much.

KEY QUOTE

# 5 (At 4:30 P.M., an adjournment was taken until, Friday, April 21, 1995, 9:00 A.M.)

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (2)

Lance A. Ito

That's why I have clocks all over the courtroom.

Mild rebuke after Neufeld misread '4:30' as exhibit item '430' — brief moment of levity before adjournment.

Lance A. Ito

Do not discuss this case amongst yourselves, don't form any opinions about the case, do not conduct any deliberations until the matter has been submitted to you, do not allow anybody to communicate with you with regard to the case.

Standard jury admonition preserving deliberation integrity.

Light Moments (1)

Lance A. Ito

Peter Neufeld misread '4:30' as exhibit item '430'; Ito drily noted he has clocks all over the courtroom.

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 5777 • 5 utterances

Criminal Trial

Department 103