Jury return (afternoon)

📄 Jury return (afternoon) — Wednesday, January 25, 1995

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TRIAL

▲ Day 6 of 167

◀ Lunch recess and discovery Opening statement — Johnnie Cochran (part 4) ▶

Date: Wednesday, January 25, 1995 • Utterances: 2

Judge Ito brings the jury back into the courtroom and announces that Johnnie Cochran's opening statement will resume. A brief administrative moment reminding jurors that opening statements are not evidence.

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

# 2 THE COURT:

ALL RIGHT. LET THE RECORD REFLECT THAT WE'VE BEEN REJOINED BY ALL MEMBERS OF OUR JURY. BE SEATED, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AT THIS TIME, WE WILL RESUME WITH MR. COCHRAN'S OPENING STATEMENT. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THE OPENING STATEMENTS BY THE ATTORNEYS ARE NOT EVIDENCE. MR. COCHRAN.

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (1)

Lance A. Ito

ALL RIGHT. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AT THIS TIME, WE WILL RESUME WITH MR. COCHRAN'S OPENING STATEMENT. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THE OPENING STATEMENTS BY THE ATTORNEYS ARE NOT EVIDENCE.

Standard judicial instruction contextualizing the evidentiary weight of opening arguments.

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 4487 • 2 utterances

Criminal Trial

Department 103