Jury greeting

📄 Jury greeting — Tuesday, July 25, 1995

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TRIAL

▲ Day 121 of 167

◀ Morning session opening Direct examination of Roger Martz (part 1) ▶

Date: Tuesday, July 25, 1995 • Utterances: 3

Judge Ito greets the jury and explains that defense witness Dr. Fredric Rieders had to travel back to Philadelphia for a medical appointment, interrupting his cross-examination. Ito informs the jury that Rieders will return Friday morning to complete testimony, and that other witnesses will fill the intervening court time.

# 1 (The following proceedings were held in open court, in the presence of the jury:)

# 2 THE COURT:

All right. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Please be seated. The record should reflect that we have now been rejoined by all the members of our jury panel. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

THE JURY: Good morning.

# 3 THE COURT:

Before we get started, I just needed to explain to you that Dr. Fredric Rieders, who was undergoing cross-examination by Miss Clark at the conclusion of the day yesterday, had a medical appointment back in his hometown of Philadelphia and he has returned back east for that purpose and will be back here on Friday morning to complete his testimony for you. So we are going to present some other witnesses to you in the interim so we can use the Court time, but you should just know that we will conclude Dr. Rieders' testimony on Friday. We will start early on that date at 8:00 A.M. and will be concluding early on Friday at eleven o'clock in the morning. All right. And Mr. Blasier, you may call your next witness.

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (1)

Lance A. Ito

Dr. Fredric Rieders, who was undergoing cross-examination by Miss Clark at the conclusion of the day yesterday, had a medical appointment back in his hometown of Philadelphia and he has returned back east for that purpose and will be back here on Friday morning to complete his testimony for you.

Explains the logistics of a key defense expert witness's absence mid-cross-examination, signaling to the jury there will be a gap in the testimony flow.

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 7018 • 3 utterances

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