📄 Administrative matters: opening — Tuesday, February 14, 1995
📅 Feb 14 — Day 18
⚖️ Lance A. Ito🏛️ Christopher Darden
jury
Address:
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TRIAL
▲ Day 18 of 167

Administrative matters: opening

Date: Tuesday, February 14, 1995 • Utterances: 9
A brief administrative proceeding to establish which attorneys would handle the upcoming matter. Harmon arrived late, prompting mild frustration from Darden, before the judge noted the presence of defense counsel Scheck and Blasier and invited Harmon to proceed.
1 (THE FOLLOWING PROCEEDINGS WERE HELD IN OPEN COURT, OUT OF THE PRESENCE OF THE JURY:)
2 THE COURT:

ALL RIGHT. MISS CLARK, MR. DARDEN, ARE YOU GOING TO HANDLE THIS MATTER?

3 MS. CLARK:

NO, YOUR HONOR. WE HAVE MR. HARMON WHO WAS NOTIFIED TO BE HERE.

4 MR. DARDEN:

HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERE AT 4:00. HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERE AT 4:20.

KEY QUOTE
5 THE COURT:

CAN WE HAVE IT QUIET, PLEASE.

6 MR. DARDEN:

I AM INFORMED HE IS ON HIS WAY DOWN.

7 THE COURT:

THERE'S MR. CLARK. THERE'S MR. HARMON.

8 MR. DARDEN:

WHILE WE HANDLE THAT, MAY I BE EXCUSED?

9 THE COURT:

WE HAVE MR. SCHECK AND MR. BLASIER AVAILABLE. COUNSEL, WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND? MR. HARMON.

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (1)

Christopher Darden
HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERE AT 4:00. HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERE AT 4:20.
Mild irritation at Harmon's tardiness, revealing inter-team coordination tensions.

Notable Exchanges (1)

Christopher DardenLance A. Ito
Darden notes Harmon is late and asks to be excused once Harmon arrives; Ito keeps order and notes both sides' counsel are present.
procedural

Objections

None recorded
Proceeding 4845 • 9 utterances
Criminal Trial
Department 103
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