Recess

📄 Recess — Wednesday, April 26, 1995

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TRIAL

▲ Day 62 of 167

◀ Cross-examination of Andrea Mazzola (part 5) Back on record ▶

Date: Wednesday, April 26, 1995 • Utterances: 6

Defense attorney Peter Neufeld suspended his cross-examination of witness Andrea Mazzola because physical evidence items he needed to question her about were not yet available in court. Judge Ito called a brief recess to allow the evidence to be retrieved and for prosecution attorney Hank Goldberg to prepare his redirect examination.

# 1 MR. NEUFELD:

Your Honor, subject to the other items of evidence, I'm--I have to suspend the cross-examination at this point.

# 2 THE COURT:

All right. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, there are a number of physical evidence items that are not available to the Court at this moment that Mr. Neufeld wanted to ask questions about. Rather than waste additional Court time waiting for those items to be brought to Court, which I anticipate will happen today, I'm going to ask Mr. Goldberg to commence with his redirect. Mr. Goldberg, are you ready to commence or do you need a few moments?

# 3 MR. GOLDBERG:

If I could have a few minutes.

# 4 THE COURT:

Ladies and gentlemen, we will take about ten minutes just to recycle the lawyers. Miss Mazzola, you may step down and we will call you back in about ten minutes. All right. Thank you.

# 5 THE COURT:

Mr. Goldberg, let me know when you are ready.

# 6 MR. GOLDBERG:

Thank you.

Temperature

procedural

Key Quotes (2)

Peter Neufeld

I have to suspend the cross-examination at this point.

Defense unable to complete cross due to missing physical evidence, forcing a pause in proceedings.

Lance A. Ito

Rather than waste additional Court time waiting for those items to be brought to Court, which I anticipate will happen today, I'm going to ask Mr. Goldberg to commence with his redirect.

Judge pivots to redirect to maintain efficiency while evidence is retrieved.

Evidence (1)

Informal

Physical evidence items requested by Neufeld for cross-examination, not yet available in court

unavailable, pending retrieval

Notable Exchanges (1)

Peter Neufeld•Lance A. Ito

Neufeld suspends cross-examination due to missing evidence; Ito redirects to prosecution's redirect examination rather than wait.

procedural

Light Moments (1)

Lance A. Ito

Judge Ito explains the recess as time 'to recycle the lawyers'

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 5824 • 6 utterances

Criminal Trial

Department 103