📄 Autopsy videotape playback — Wednesday, June 7, 1995
📅 Jun 7 — Day 90
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Autopsy videotape playback

Date: Wednesday, June 7, 1995 • Utterances: 4
Judge Ito played a brief videotape for parties outside the jury's presence, then revealed it was shown in response to viewer complaints about audience members eating during autopsy testimony. The moment served as a warning to courtroom attendees about decorum before jurors were brought back in.
1 (The following proceedings were held in open court, out of the presence of the jury:)
2 THE COURT:

Back on the record in the Simpson matter. All parties are again present. I wanted to play a videotape for the parties here. May we have the videotape, please.

3 (At 2:30 P.M., a videotape, was played.)
4 THE COURT:

This is during the doctor's testimony regarding the autopsy of Nicole Brown Simpson. All right. I think we've made the point. Thank you. All right. Fair warning. All right. Let's have the jurors. By the way, that videotape was the result of comment by viewers calling into the Court about people in the audience eating.

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (1)

Lance A. Ito
Fair warning. All right. Let's have the jurors. By the way, that videotape was the result of comment by viewers calling into the Court about people in the audience eating.
Reveals the unusual reason for the playback — public viewers phoned the court to complain about audience behavior during autopsy footage.

Evidence (1)

Informal
Videotape related to autopsy testimony of Nicole Brown Simpson
played for parties out of jury's presence

Light Moments (1)

Lance A. Ito
Judge reveals the videotape was played because TV viewers called the court to complain about audience members eating during autopsy testimony — a bizarre collision of courtroom decorum and reality-TV-style viewer feedback.

Objections

None recorded
Proceeding 6298 • 4 utterances
Criminal Trial
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