Witness scheduling

📄 Witness scheduling — Tuesday, August 1, 1995

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TRIAL

▲ Day 126 of 167

◀ Procedural matters Motion: videotape evidence admission ▶

Date: Tuesday, August 1, 1995 • Utterances: 13

A brief scheduling discussion at the start of an afternoon session in the civil trial. Neufeld outlines the plan for the afternoon: reading and playing Peratis's Grand Jury and preliminary hearing testimony, followed by argument on a contamination motion with Scheck present. Cochran adds a light moment when assigning roles for the transcript reading.

# 1 (The following proceedings were held in open court, out of the presence of the jury:)

# 2 THE COURT:

All right. Back on the record in the Simpson matter. All parties are again present. All right. Are we ready to proceed with the next witness?

# 3 MR. NEUFELD:

Your Honor, as I mentioned to you yesterday, because of the matter involving Tracie Savage and Michele Kestler, the only other testimony we have this afternoon will be the reading of the Grand Jury testimony of Mr. Peratis and then playing the videotape of the preliminary hearing testimony of Mr. Peratis, and then we will resume with live testimony tomorrow morning with Dr. John Gerdes. I need to know from you though, because I have to get Mr. Scheck here, when do you want to hear argument on that contamination motion? I'll have someone call where he is. He's over on the west side of town. He can be here in 30 minutes. But I asked you before to make that the last order of business as opposed to the first.

# 4 THE COURT:

I would suggest that we do it after we've concluded all the other matters today, this afternoon.

# 5 MR. NEUFELD:

Okay. All right.

# 6 THE COURT:

And from my recollection of the tape recording or the Grand Jury testimony, that probably will only take what, eight or 10 minutes?

# 7 MR. NEUFELD:

I think there are two gentlemen who will read the Grand Jury testimony, which should take I would say less than three or four minutes, and then the playing of the tape, which will take less than 10 minutes, and then I believe you have the Bosco matter and then we would have Mr. Scheck and Mr. Clarke on the contamination.

# 8 THE COURT:

On the Gerdes matter. All right. Sounds like a plan.

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# 9 MR. NEUFELD:

Is that consistent with--okay.

# 10 THE COURT:

How do you propose to proceed at this point then?

# 11 MR. COCHRAN:

Well, your Honor, I would propose that we need someone to play Marcia Clark, your Honor, and I searched all around and I came up with Mr. Douglas who will do that I believe, and Mr. Scheck will be Mr. Peratis, the nurse. Well, Mr.--strike that. Mr. Blasier, Bob Blasier will be Mr. Peratis.

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# 12 THE COURT:

All right.

# 13 MR. COCHRAN:

We're ready to proceed if you are, your Honor.

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (2)

Johnnie Cochran

I would propose that we need someone to play Marcia Clark, your Honor, and I searched all around and I came up with Mr. Douglas who will do that I believe

Cochran's joke about finding a stand-in for Marcia Clark — a nod to the criminal trial's star prosecutor — is the only memorable moment in an otherwise routine exchange.

Lance A. Ito

Sounds like a plan.

Ito's casual sign-off captures the low-stakes, administrative nature of the proceeding.

Evidence (2)

Informal

Grand Jury testimony of Thano Peratis (nurse who drew OJ's blood sample)

scheduled to be read into record

Informal

Videotape of Peratis's preliminary hearing testimony

scheduled to be played

Notable Exchanges (1)

Peter Neufeld•Lance A. Ito

Neufeld coordinates the order of afternoon business — Peratis testimony first, then the Bosco matter, then Scheck and Clarke on the contamination motion — and Ito agrees.

procedural

Light Moments (1)

Johnnie Cochran

Cochran jokes that he 'searched all around' for someone to play Marcia Clark's role in reading the Grand Jury transcript, settling on Mr. Douglas, then corrects himself to assign Blasier as Peratis.

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 7120 • 13 utterances

Criminal Trial

Department 103