📄 Jury recess — Thursday, February 16, 1995
📅 Feb 16 — Day 20
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TRIAL
▲ Day 20 of 167

Jury recess

Date: Thursday, February 16, 1995 • Utterances: 3
Judge Ito announces the afternoon recess, delivers standard jury admonitions, and dismisses Detective Phillips until the following morning. He notes a pending lawyer dispute and DNA issues to address, then calls counsel to chambers off the record.
1 MS. CLARK:

I ASKED, "WHAT DID YOU DO," AND THAT ELICITED I THINK THE RESPONSE.

2 (THE FOLLOWING PROCEEDINGS WERE HELD IN OPEN COURT:)
3 THE COURT:

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE ARE GOING TO TAKE OUR RECESS AT THIS TIME FOR THE AFTERNOON. I HAVE A DISPUTE I WANT TO SETTLE WITH THE LAWYERS THAT OBVIOUSLY IS GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE TIME. PLEASE REMEMBER MY ADMONITION TO YOU; DON'T DISCUSS THE CASE AMONGST YOURSELVES, DON'T FORM ANY OPINIONS ABOUT THE CASE, DON'T CONDUCT ANY DELIBERATIONS UNTIL THE MATTER HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO YOU, DON'T ALLOW ANYBODY TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU REGARDING THE CASE. AND WE'LL STAND IN RECESS AS FAR AS THE JURY IS CONCERNED UNTIL 9:30 TOMORROW MORNING. WE ALSO OF DNA ISSUES WE NEED TO TAKE UP. AND, DETECTIVE PHILLIPS, YOU ARE EXCUSED UNTIL TOMORROW MORNING AT 9:00 O'CLOCK. THANK YOU, SIR. LET ME SEE COUNSEL IN CHAMBERS, PLEASE, WITHOUT THE REPORTER.

Temperature

procedural

Key Quotes (2)

Lance A. Ito
I HAVE A DISPUTE I WANT TO SETTLE WITH THE LAWYERS THAT OBVIOUSLY IS GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE TIME.
Signals unresolved legal argument that required the jury to be excused before it could be addressed.
Lance A. Ito
LET ME SEE COUNSEL IN CHAMBERS, PLEASE, WITHOUT THE REPORTER.
Off-the-record chambers conference — the substance of the dispute will not appear in the transcript.

Notable Exchanges (1)

Lance A. ItoCounsel
Judge references an unspecified dispute with lawyers that prompted early recess; calls all counsel to off-the-record chambers conference.
procedural

Objections

None recorded
Proceeding 5046 • 3 utterances
Criminal Trial
Department 103
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