Judge Ito directly questioned witness Gretchen Stockdale about a voicemail tape she had recorded over, asking whether she still possessed the physical tape and whether she objected to the parties obtaining a copy of the original message from the voicemail service provider. Stockdale indicated she had been searching for the tape but hadn't found it, and that she had recorded over it a couple of times. The exchange briefly touched on a New York newspaper somehow obtaining information about the message, which Stockdale said was a mystery to her.
# 1 THE COURT: Miss Stockdale, do you still have the tape, physically the tape itself that you taped over?
# 2 MS. STOCKDALE: I believe I do. I've been looking for it.
# 3 THE COURT: You've been looking for it, but you haven't found it?
# 5 THE COURT: All right. Do you know how many times you've taped over that tape?
# 6 MS. STOCKDALE: Couple times.
# 7 THE COURT: It makes it a little more difficult. All right. Do you have any objection to--if prestige voice mail still has the original message on their information systems there, do you have any objection to the parties getting a copy of that phone message?
# 9 THE COURT: All right. Do you have any idea how a New York newspaper wound up--
KEY QUOTE # 10 MS. STOCKDALE: That's a mystery to me.
KEY QUOTE # 11 THE COURT: All right. All right. Thank you very much, Miss Stockdale.
# 12 MS. STOCKDALE: Thank you.