📄 Morning session opening — Tuesday, January 24, 1995
📅 Jan 24 — Day 5
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TRIAL
▲ Day 5 of 167

Morning session opening

Date: Tuesday, January 24, 1995 • Utterances: 4
Judge Ito called the court back on the record, noted appearances for both sides, and addressed a juror note asking whether they would be permitted to watch the Super Bowl that weekend. The judge confirmed they could, and Shapiro indicated no objection.
1 (JANET M. MOXHAM, CSR NO. 4855, OFFICIAL REPORTER.)
2 (CHRISTINE M. OLSON, CSR NO. 2378, OFFICIAL REPORTER.)
3 THE COURT:

BACK ON THE RECORD IN THE SIMPSON MATTER. MR. SIMPSON IS AGAIN PRESENT BEFORE THE COURT WITH HIS COUNSEL, MR. UELMEN, MR. SHAPIRO, MR. COCHRAN, MR. DOUGLAS, MR. BAILEY. THE PEOPLE ARE REPRESENTED BY MISS CLARK, MR. DARDEN AND MR. HODGMAN. COUNSEL, WE HAVE A FEW MATTERS TO DISPOSE OF BEFORE WE REACH OUR OPENING STATEMENT STAGE. COUNSEL, YESTERDAY THE JURORS, WHEN THEY RETIRED, ONE OF THE JURORS HANDED THE BAILIFFS A NOTE FOR THE COURT AND THEY WERE JUST CURIOUS AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THE COURT WAS GOING TO ALLOW THEM TO WATCH THE SUPERBOWL THIS WEEKEND AND I INDICATED TO THEM THAT YES, THEY CAN, AND THAT WE WOULD ARRANGE THEIR VISITATION SCHEDULE ACCORDINGLY. SO I TAKE IT THERE IS NO COMMENT ON THAT?

4 MR. SHAPIRO:

NO.

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (1)

Lance A. Ito
ONE OF THE JURORS HANDED THE BAILIFFS A NOTE FOR THE COURT AND THEY WERE JUST CURIOUS AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THE COURT WAS GOING TO ALLOW THEM TO WATCH THE SUPERBOWL THIS WEEKEND AND I INDICATED TO THEM THAT YES, THEY CAN
A rare humanizing moment — the sequestered jury's primary concern that morning was football, not the trial.

Light Moments (1)

Lance A. Ito
A sequestered juror passed a note to the bailiff not about trial concerns but to ask if they could watch the Super Bowl. The judge said yes.

Objections

None recorded
Proceeding 4427 • 4 utterances
Criminal Trial
Department 103
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