Morning session opening

📄 Morning session opening — Tuesday, January 31, 1995

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TRIAL

▲ Day 9 of 167

◀ Sidebar: photographer guidelines Opening statement reopening ▶

Date: Tuesday, January 31, 1995 • Utterances: 2

Judge Ito issued a brief instruction to courtroom photographers prohibiting them from photographing computer screens at counsel's table or in the back row. He then greeted the jury to open the session.

# 1 THE COURT:

THANK YOU, COUNSEL. LET ME GIVE A DIRECTION TO THE STILL PHOTOGRAPHERS HERE IN THE COURTROOM. GENTLEMEN, YOU ARE NOT TO TAKE ANY PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANY OF THE COMPUTER SCREENS THAT ARE ON COUNSEL'S DESK OR IN THE BACK ROW HERE. UNDERSTOOD? MISS HAYSLETT, WOULD YOU MAKE SURE THAT ANY OTHER PHOTOGRAPHERS WHO COME INTO THE COURTROOM ARE SO ADVISED. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, GOOD MORNING.

# 2 THE JURY:

GOOD MORNING.

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (1)

Lance A. Ito

YOU ARE NOT TO TAKE ANY PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANY OF THE COMPUTER SCREENS THAT ARE ON COUNSEL'S DESK OR IN THE BACK ROW HERE.

Reflects the civil trial's more restrictive media environment compared to the criminal trial, with Ito controlling courtroom photography closely.

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 4504 • 2 utterances

Criminal Trial

Department 103