ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, COUNSEL. THANK YOU, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. BE SEATED. GOOD MORNING AGAIN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.

GOOD MORNING.

THE RECORD SHOULD REFLECT THAT WE HAVE NOW BEEN REJOINED BY ALL OF OUR TRIAL JURORS. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LET ME JUST GIVE YOU A BRIEF EXPLANATION AS TO WHAT OCCURRED LATE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON JUST TO PUT YOUR MIND AT EASE AND SO THAT YOU DON'T SPECULATE AS TO WHAT THE PROBLEM WAS YESTERDAY. YESTERDAY AFTERNOON THE TELEVISION CAMERA THAT IS MOUNTED ABOVE YOU SWUNG AND INADVERTENTLY TOOK A PHOTOGRAPH OF ONE OF THE JURORS IN OUR CASE, AND THAT WAS BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION AND WHAT I NEEDED TO DO WAS IMMEDIATELY GET FROM THE PERSONNEL OPERATING THE CAMERA AN EXPLANATION AS TO HOW THAT OCCURRED AND TO FIND OUT WHAT MEASURES WOULD BE NECESSARY TO PREVENT THAT FROM HAPPENING IN THE FUTURE. BECAUSE IF YOU RECALL WHEN WE STARTED THIS TRIAL, I TOLD EACH OF YOU -- I GAVE YOU EACH MY PROMISE THAT YOU WOULD NOT BE PHOTOGRAPHED OR IN ANY WAY REPRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC BY WAY OF PICTURE, AND SO I WAS VERY CONCERNED BY THAT REPORT, SO I HAD TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION AND THAT IS WHY I FELT IT WAS NECESSARY FOR ME TO STOP THE PROCEEDINGS UNTIL I COULD BE ASSURED THAT THE PROBLEM WOULD NOT REOCCUR. I HAVE DISCUSSED THE MATTER WITH THE JUROR WHOSE PICTURE WAS TAKEN AND WE HAVE RESOLVED THE FACT THAT THERE APPEARS TO BE NO PROBLEM AT THIS POINT. IT WAS LESS THAN A SECOND THAT THE JUROR WAS ACTUALLY DEPICTED, SO IT WAS A RELATIVELY MINOR TRANSGRESSION, BUT IT WAS SOMETHING THAT I FELT IT WAS SERIOUS ENOUGH AS FAR AS YOUR WELFARE IS CONCERNED THAT I HAD TO TAKE THE TIME TO DO IT. SO I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT I WAS INTERESTED IN YOUR WELFARE AT THE TIME AND I'M SURE YOU UNDERSTAND THE NEED. UNFORTUNATELY IT ALSO STOPPED MR. COCHRAN FROM IMMEDIATELY BEGINNING HIS OPENING STATEMENT, AND ON BEHALF OF THE COURT AND THE COURT T.V., I APOLOGIZE TO DEFENSE COUNSEL FOR THAT DELAY. ALL RIGHT. WE WILL NOW START WITH THE OPENING STATEMENT MADE BY THE DEFENSE. LET ME JUST REMIND YOU THAT ANY STATEMENTS MADE BY THE ATTORNEYS DURING THE COURSE OF THEIR OPENING STATEMENTS OF COURSE IS NOT EVIDENCE AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED BY YOU AS SUCH. IT IS MERELY AN EXPLANATION AS TO WHAT THEY INTEND TO PROVE OR WHAT THEY THINK THE EVIDENCE WILL SHOW YOU DURING THE COURSE OF THIS TRIAL. MR. COCHRAN, ON BEHALF OF MR. SIMPSON, ARE YOU PREPARED TO PROCEED?