Morning session opening

📄 Morning session opening — Wednesday, April 5, 1995

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TRIAL

▲ Day 52 of 167

◀ Jury admonition Cross-examination of Dennis Fung (morning, part 1) ▶

Date: Wednesday, April 5, 1995 • Utterances: 10

Judge Ito opens the morning session and seats the jury. Alternate juror number 795 is assigned to seat 9, with a renumbering of seats planned for after the morning session. Dennis Fung, the LAPD criminalist, is called back to the witness stand to continue testimony from the prior session.

# 1 (JANET M. MOXHAM, CSR NO. 4855, OFFICIAL REPORTER.)

# 2 (CHRISTINE M. OLSON, CSR NO. 2378, OFFICIAL REPORTER.)

# 3 (PAGES 21822 THROUGH 21856, VOLUME 121A, TRANSCRIBED AND SEALED UNDER SEPARATE COVER.)

# 4 (THE FOLLOWING PROCEEDINGS WERE HELD IN OPEN COURT, OUT OF THE PRESENCE OF THE JURY:)

# 5 THE COURT:

ALL RIGHT. GOOD MORNING, COUNSEL. ANYTHING WE NEED TO PUT ON THE RECORD BEFORE WE INVITE THE JURORS TO JOIN US? ALL RIGHT. DEPUTY JEX, LET'S HAVE THE JURY, PLEASE.

# 6 (BRIEF PAUSE.)

# 7 (THE FOLLOWING PROCEEDINGS WERE HELD IN OPEN COURT, IN THE PRESENCE OF THE JURY:)

# 8 THE COURT:

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. PLEASE BE SEATED. ALL RIGHT. LET THE RECORD REFLECT WE HAVE BEEN JOINED BY ALL REMAINING MEMBERS OF OUR JURY PANEL. MRS. ROBERTSON, WOULD YOU PLEASE DRAW THE NUMBER OF AN ALTERNATE JUROR.

# 9 THE CLERK:

JUROR NO. 795, PLEASE HAVE A SEAT IN SEAT NO. 9.

# 10 THE COURT:

ALL RIGHT. AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE MORNING SESSION THIS MORNING MRS. ROBERTSON WILL RENUMBER THE SEATS. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. MR. FUNG, WOULD YOU RESUME THE WITNESS STAND, PLEASE.

DENNIS FUNG, THE WITNESS ON THE STAND AT THE TIME OF THE EVENING ADJOURNMENT, RESUMED THE STAND AND TESTIFIED FURTHER AS FOLLOWS:

KEY QUOTE

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (2)

Lance A. Ito

MRS. ROBERTSON, WOULD YOU PLEASE DRAW THE NUMBER OF AN ALTERNATE JUROR.

Indicates a juror has been dismissed and replaced by an alternate mid-trial, a notable procedural event.

Lance A. Ito

AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE MORNING SESSION THIS MORNING MRS. ROBERTSON WILL RENUMBER THE SEATS.

Standard procedure following alternate substitution, but signals ongoing jury attrition in the trial.

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 5597 • 10 utterances

Criminal Trial

Department 103