📄 Hearing: witness availability and media — Thursday, August 10, 1995
📅 Aug 10 — Day 133
⚖️ Lance A. Ito
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TRIAL
▲ Day 133 of 167

Hearing: witness availability and media

Date: Thursday, August 10, 1995 • Utterances: 6
Judge Ito briefly outlined the afternoon's schedule before resuming testimony from Dr. Baden in the civil trial. The court planned to address discovery issues related to SDT materials at 5:00 PM and media subpoena arguments at 5:30 PM, with a focus on finishing Dr. Baden's direct examination first.
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. Mr. Simpson is again present before the court with his counsel, People are represented. The jury is not present. The record should reflect that the Court, starting at 1:30, conducted a 1054.7 hearing with counsel for the pros--excuse me--counsel for the Defense. And, counsel, the issues regarding discovery of the SDT materials we'll take up at 5 o'clock today. I would like to finish as much of Dr. Baden as we can. I understand Miss Sager wants to come in on behalf of some of the news media people who are subpoenaed for next week to make some arguments. So we'll take that up at 5:30. So we'll take up the discovery issue at 5:00 and hopefully have enough time to get into the news media issues. But I would like to at least finish the direct examination of Dr. Baden this afternoon.

3 MR. SHAPIRO:

Yes, we will do that. We'll have enough time to start the cross-examination, your Honor.

4 THE COURT:

Okay.

5 MS. CLARK:

And I assume that the presence of the media people will be for the purposes of the 402?

KEY QUOTE
6 THE COURT:

Yes. That's one of the issues. And apparently, there's some problem regarding availability of witnesses and counsel for the witnesses is one of the issues. Okay. Let's have the jurors, Deputy Magnera.

Temperature

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Key Quotes (2)

Lance A. Ito
I would like to finish as much of Dr. Baden as we can.
Sets the court's priority for the afternoon session — Dr. Baden's testimony over administrative matters.
Marcia Clark
And I assume that the presence of the media people will be for the purposes of the 402?
Clark seeks to clarify the procedural posture of the media subpoena hearing — whether it would be an Evidence Code 402 foundational hearing.

Notable Exchanges (1)

Lance A. ItoMarcia Clark
Clark asks whether the media witnesses' appearance would be for a 402 hearing; Ito confirms that is one of the issues, also noting witness availability problems.
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Objections

None recorded
Proceeding 7269 • 6 utterances
Criminal Trial
Department 103
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