Phone number stipulations

📄 Phone number stipulations — Wednesday, June 21, 1995

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TRIAL

▲ Day 100 of 167

◀ Cross-examination of Lu Ellen Robertson Direct examination of Kathleen Delaney ▶

Date: Wednesday, June 21, 1995 • Utterances: 16

Both sides stipulated to the phone numbers associated with Nicole Brown Simpson and Paula Barbieri as of June 12, 1994. Clark offered Nicole's number first, then Cochran requested they also stipulate to Barbieri's numbers, leading to a brief off-record discussion before the final stipulation was read into the record.

# 1 MS. CLARK:

Your Honor, let me offer to stipulate--I believe counsel is agreed and I will stipulate that as of June the 12th, Nicole Brown's phone number was (310) 826-0403.

# 2 MR. COCHRAN:

So stipulated.

# 3 THE COURT:

All right.

# 4 MR. COCHRAN:

May we also have a stipulation with regard to Paula Barbieri's phone number?

# 5 MS. CLARK:

I thought we already did. You want to do it again? Did we already do it? Shall we do it again?

KEY QUOTE

# 6 THE COURT:

All right. Why don't you take the exhibit down. And, Miss Robertson, you can go. Thank you. Take the exhibit down.

# 7 MS. CLARK:

Yes, you want me to do the stipulation?

# 8 THE COURT:

Yes. Say it over.

# 9 MS. CLARK:

I just need to look at the board while I'm doing it, your Honor.

# 10 THE COURT:

All right.

# 11 MS. CLARK:

Counsel, may it be stipulated that as of June the 12th, 1994, the phone number (310) 470-3468 was--belonged to Paula Barbieri, and that as of June the 12th, 1994, the phone number (305) 582-6952 also belonged to Paula Barbieri, but in Florida?

# 12 MR. COCHRAN:

Well, I can't--let me--just one second. One second.

# 13 (Discussion held off the record between the Deputy District Attorney and Defense counsel.)

# 14 MS. CLARK:

I have to do it one more time. With respect to the phone number (305) 582-6952, that was also a phone number registered to Paula Barbieri as of June the 12th, 1994.

# 15 MR. COCHRAN:

So stipulated.

# 16 THE COURT:

All right. Ladies and gentlemen, as I instructed you yesterday, a stipulation is an agreement between the attorneys as to the facts that the stipulation relates to. You are to assume those facts to be true for the purpose of this trial. Next witness.

KEY QUOTE

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (2)

Lance A. Ito

Ladies and gentlemen, as I instructed you yesterday, a stipulation is an agreement between the attorneys as to the facts that the stipulation relates to. You are to assume those facts to be true for the purpose of this trial.

Standard jury instruction on stipulations, establishing these phone numbers as uncontested facts.

Marcia Clark

I thought we already did. You want to do it again? Did we already do it? Shall we do it again?

Mild confusion over whether Barbieri's number had already been stipulated, revealing some procedural disorganization.

Evidence (3)

Informal

Nicole Brown Simpson's phone number (310) 826-0403 as of June 12, 1994

stipulated

Informal

Paula Barbieri's California phone number (310) 470-3468 as of June 12, 1994

stipulated

Informal

Paula Barbieri's Florida phone number (305) 582-6952 as of June 12, 1994

stipulated

Notable Exchanges (1)

Marcia Clark•Johnnie Cochran

Brief off-record discussion needed before Cochran would stipulate to Barbieri's Florida number, suggesting minor disagreement about its scope or wording.

strategic

Light Moments (1)

Marcia Clark

Clark's slightly flustered repetition — 'I thought we already did. You want to do it again? Did we already do it? Shall we do it again?' — added a moment of mild comic confusion to an otherwise dry exchange.

Witness Demeanor

(Discussion held off the record between the Deputy District Attorney and Defense counsel.)

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 6476 • 16 utterances

Criminal Trial

Department 103