Sidebar: airline information

📄 Sidebar: airline information — Friday, February 24, 1995

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TRIAL

▲ Day 25 of 167

◀ Cross-examination of Rosa Lopez (morning, part 1) Cross-examination of Rosa Lopez (morning, part 2) ▶

Date: Friday, February 24, 1995 • Utterances: 8

A brief sidebar in which Cochran raised concerns about a witness's travel arrangements — specifically that Southwest Airlines only flies certain routes — and mentioned reporters had been at the witness's hotel. Darden pushed back, arguing he had a right to know the airline and the witness's whereabouts. Ito shut down the discussion, ruling the airline was not truly relevant and stipulating for the record that it was Southwest.

# 1 (THE FOLLOWING PROCEEDINGS WERE HELD AT THE BENCH:)

# 2 THE COURT:

WE'RE AT THE SIDEBAR. WHY ARE WE HERE?

# 3 MR. COCHRAN:

SOUTHWEST ONLY GOES TO SOME -- CERTAIN STATES. SOUTHWEST ONLY FLIES OVER ARIZONA AND MEXICO AND SOME AREAS -- SHE'S GOING BACK ON THE SAME AIRLINE. THERE WERE REPORTERS IN THE HOTEL THIS MORNING.

# 4 THE COURT:

OKAY. OKAY.

# 5 MR. COCHRAN:

I DON'T MIND --

# 6 THE COURT:

HE KNOWS --

# 7 MR. DARDEN:

EVERYONE KNOWS THE AIRLINE ALREADY, KNOWS WHAT HOTEL SHE IS IN, BUT I CAN'T KNOW? AND I THINK I HAVE A RIGHT ALSO TO KNOW WHERE SHE'S BEEN --

KEY QUOTE

# 8 THE COURT:

MR. DARDEN, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT. THE ISSUE IS -- THE AIRLINE IS NOT REALLY RELEVANT. NOW THAT I KNOW -- AND, YOU KNOW, I AM THE ONE THAT HAS TO MAKE THE DECISION. NOBODY ELSE. SO I KNOW IT'S SOUTHWEST. WE'LL STIPULATE IT'S SOUTHWEST FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS. SO LET'S PROCEED.

Temperature

procedural

Key Quotes (2)

Christopher Darden

EVERYONE KNOWS THE AIRLINE ALREADY, KNOWS WHAT HOTEL SHE IS IN, BUT I CAN'T KNOW? AND I THINK I HAVE A RIGHT ALSO TO KNOW WHERE SHE'S BEEN --

Darden's frustration at being kept in the dark about a witness's travel while others apparently already had the information.

Lance A. Ito

THE AIRLINE IS NOT REALLY RELEVANT. NOW THAT I KNOW -- AND, YOU KNOW, I AM THE ONE THAT HAS TO MAKE THE DECISION. NOBODY ELSE. SO I KNOW IT'S SOUTHWEST. WE'LL STIPULATE IT'S SOUTHWEST FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS. SO LET'S PROCEED.

Ito asserts his authority and cuts off the dispute by simply stipulating the airline and moving on.

Notable Exchanges (1)

Christopher Darden•Lance A. Ito

Darden objected that he was being denied information about the witness's airline and hotel that others apparently already knew. Ito cut him off, ruling the airline irrelevant and stipulating Southwest on the record.

tense

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 5085 • 8 utterances

Criminal Trial

Department 103