Administrative matters: bribery

📄 Administrative matters: bribery — Thursday, March 2, 1995

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TRIAL

▲ Day 29 of 167

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Date: Thursday, March 2, 1995 • Utterances: 3

A brief administrative moment at the close of a session where Judge Ito invited Robert Shapiro to make a record comment about witness bribery. Prosecutor Cheri Lewis interjected with '$5,000,' apparently referencing an amount related to the matter, but the exchange was cut short.

# 1 THE COURT:

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. MR. SHAPIRO, YOU WANTED TO MAKE ONE COMMENT FOR THE RECORD BEFORE WE CONCLUDE? WITNESS BRIBERY, THAT SORT OF THING?

# 2 MS. LEWIS:

$5,000.

# 3 THE COURT:

I'M SORRY, I THOUGHT YOU HAD INDICATED --

Temperature

procedural

Key Quotes (2)

Lance A. Ito

MR. SHAPIRO, YOU WANTED TO MAKE ONE COMMENT FOR THE RECORD BEFORE WE CONCLUDE? WITNESS BRIBERY, THAT SORT OF THING?

Signals that a witness bribery issue had been raised and Shapiro requested to address it on the record.

Cheri Lewis

$5,000.

The prosecution apparently had a specific dollar figure in mind related to the bribery matter, though context is absent from this fragment.

Notable Exchanges (1)

Lance A. Ito•Cheri Lewis

Lewis interrupted or jumped in with a dollar amount — '$5,000' — before Ito could finish his thought, suggesting she had specific knowledge of the bribery allegation's details.

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Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 5094 • 3 utterances

Criminal Trial

Department 103