Morning session opening

📄 Morning session opening — Monday, February 27, 1995

Address:

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TRIAL

▲ Day 26 of 167

◀ Court address to jury Motion: conditional examination of Rosa Lopez ▶

Date: Monday, February 27, 1995 • Utterances: 6

A brief administrative session opening the record in the Simpson criminal matter. The judge confirmed the presence of OJ Simpson, his defense counsel (Shapiro, Cochran, Douglas, Bailey), and the prosecution (Clark, Darden, Lewis), then immediately invited the jury to join.

# 1 (JANET M. MOXHAM, CSR NO. 4855, OFFICIAL REPORTER.)

# 2 (CHRISTINE M. OLSON, CSR NO. 2378, OFFICIAL REPORTER.)

# 3 (THE FOLLOWING PROCEEDINGS WERE HELD IN OPEN COURT, OUT OF THE PRESENCE OF THE JURY:)

# 4 THE COURT:

BACK ON THE RECORD IN THE SIMPSON MATTER. MR. SIMPSON IS AGAIN PRESENT BEFORE THE COURT WITH HIS COUNSEL, MR. SHAPIRO, MR. COCHRAN, MR. DOUGLAS, MR. BAILEY. THE PEOPLE ARE REPRESENTED BY MISS CLARK, MR. DARDEN, MISS LEWIS. THE JURY IS NOT PRESENT. COUNSEL, ANYTHING ELSE WE NEED TO TAKE UP?

KEY QUOTE

# 5 MR. COCHRAN:

WE MAY PROCEED, YOUR HONOR.

KEY QUOTE

# 6 THE COURT:

INVITE THE JURORS TO JOIN US.

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (2)

Lance A. Ito

BACK ON THE RECORD IN THE SIMPSON MATTER. MR. SIMPSON IS AGAIN PRESENT BEFORE THE COURT WITH HIS COUNSEL, MR. SHAPIRO, MR. COCHRAN, MR. DOUGLAS, MR. BAILEY. THE PEOPLE ARE REPRESENTED BY MISS CLARK, MR. DARDEN, MISS LEWIS. THE JURY IS NOT PRESENT. COUNSEL, ANYTHING ELSE WE NEED TO TAKE UP?

Establishes the full cast of counsel present for the session on the record.

Johnnie Cochran

WE MAY PROCEED, YOUR HONOR.

Defense signals no outstanding matters before the jury is called in.

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 4958 • 6 utterances

Criminal Trial

Department 103