Jury recess

📄 Jury recess — Tuesday, March 14, 1995

Address:

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TRIAL

▲ Day 37 of 167

◀ Motion: admissibility of cross-examination evidence Cross-examination of Mark Fuhrman (morning, part 1) ▶

Date: Tuesday, March 14, 1995 • Utterances: 8

The jury returns to the courtroom after a delay caused by preliminary matters handled outside their presence. Judge Ito apologizes for the late start, then recalls Detective Mark Fuhrman to the witness stand to resume F. Lee Bailey's cross-examination.

# 1 (BRIEF PAUSE.)

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

# 3 THE COURT:

THANK YOU, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. PLEASE BE SEATED. LET THE RECORD REFLECT THAT WE HAVE BEEN REJOINED BY ALL THE MEMBERS OF OUR JURY PANEL. GOOD MORNING, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.

# 4 THE JURY:

GOOD MORNING.

# 5 THE COURT:

MY APOLOGIES TO YOU FOR THE DELAY IN GETTING STARTED. WE HAD A NUMBER OF ISSUES THAT WE HAD TO TAKE UP AT THE BEGINNING OF THE COURT DAY AND WE ARE JUST GETTING AROUND NOW TO THE PRESENTATION OF EVIDENCE. I'M SURE YOU UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEMS AND DIFFICULTIES THAT WE ALWAYS HAVE. PRESENT IN THE COURTROOM IS DETECTIVE MARK FUHRMAN. DETECTIVE FUHRMAN, WOULD YOU PLEASE RESUME THE WITNESS STAND.

MARK FUHRMAN, THE WITNESS ON THE STAND AT THE TIME OF THE EVENING ADJOURNMENT, RESUMED THE STAND AND TESTIFIED FURTHER AS FOLLOWS:

# 6 THE COURT:

ALL RIGHT. THE RECORD SHOULD REFLECT THAT DETECTIVE FUHRMAN IS PRESENT ON CROSS-EXAMINATION BY MR. BAILEY. GOOD MORNING AGAIN, DETECTIVE.

# 7 THE WITNESS:

GOOD MORNING, YOUR HONOR.

# 8 THE COURT:

DETECTIVE FUHRMAN, YOU ARE REMINDED YOU ARE STILL UNDER OATH. MR. BAILEY, YOU MAY RESUME WITH YOUR CROSS-EXAMINATION.

KEY QUOTE

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (2)

Lance A. Ito

PRESENT IN THE COURTROOM IS DETECTIVE MARK FUHRMAN. DETECTIVE FUHRMAN, WOULD YOU PLEASE RESUME THE WITNESS STAND.

Signals that Fuhrman's cross-examination by Bailey — one of the trial's most consequential examinations — is about to resume.

Lance A. Ito

DETECTIVE FUHRMAN, YOU ARE REMINDED YOU ARE STILL UNDER OATH.

Standard oath reminder, but carries weight given what Bailey's cross-examination of Fuhrman involved regarding racial slurs and perjury exposure.

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 5274 • 8 utterances

Criminal Trial

Department 103