WHERE I WOULD LIKE TO GO IS I WOULD LIKE TO HIM ASK -- HE IS GOING TO BE AWAY ANYWAY. I WOULD LIKE TO ASK HIM ABOUT THE RECOVERY OF THE KNIFE AT ROCKINGHAM, MAKE HIM MY OWN WITNESS. HE IS A COURT'S WITNESS ANYWAY. ASK HIM WHERE HE RECOVERED IT AND WHEN HE RECOVERED IT AND SAVE HIM HAVING TO COME BACK.
THE REASON I DIDN'T ASK HIM ABOUT THAT IS BECAUSE THE KNIFE IS IRRELEVANT, COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT, SINCE IT ISN'T THE MURDER WEAPON, BUT YOU KNOW, I KNOW HOW MR. COCHRAN LIKES TO PLAY TO THE PUBLIC ON THESE ISSUES. BUT IT EXCEEDS DIRECT, IT IS IRRELEVANT AND IT IS AN ISSUE THAT I THOUGHT WE HAD ALL AGREED THAT WE WOULD LITIGATE AT SOME FUTURE POINT. JUDGE WONG WILL BE BACK IN TOWN TUESDAY. MR. COCHRAN, HE WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR YOUR DEFENSE CASE IF YOU WANT TO ATTEMPT TO PUT IN A KNIFE THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS CASE.
IN ANY EVENT, WE STRENUOUSLY OBJECT. IT IS HIGHLY IMPROPER. LET HIM PUT ON A DEFENSE, JUDGE. LET HIM PUT ON THEIR OWN DEFENSE, CALL WHATEVER WITNESSES YOU THINK ARE APPROPRIATE WHEN THE TIME COMES, MR. COCHRAN.
MAY I -- IF THEY COULD TRY NOT TO BE PERSONAL, I AM TRYING TO ADDRESS THE REMARK TO YOU, NOT TO THEM, AND WHAT I AM INDICATING TO THE COURT IS THAT THIS WILL BE AN APPROPRIATE TIME. I ASKED TO APPROACH. UNLIKE THEM, I DIDN'T ASK QUESTIONS OUT THERE. I APPROACHED THE BENCH AND ASKED YOU TO GO INTO THIS. THIS IS RELEVANT, VERY RELEVANT, BECAUSE THE SPECIAL MASTER IS APPOINTED BY YOU. AND FURTHERMORE, THERE IS GOING TO BE TESTIMONY FROM THIS CORONER. THE CORONER COMPARED THESE KNIVES, SO THEY MAY WANT TO LIMIT WHATEVER -- THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT HIDING EVIDENCE, THEY MAY WANT TO LIMIT WHAT IS RELEVANT, BUT IT IS GOING TO BE VERY RELEVANT, YOUR HONOR. THE CORONER TESTED THIS PARTICULAR KNIFE FROM ROSS CUTLERY AND COMPARED IT WITH THE WOUND AND FOUND IT WAS CONSISTENT WITH THE WOUND. THE FACT THAT THEY FIND OUT NOW THAT IT WAS A THEORY THAT DIDN'T WORK DOESN'T MEAN IT CAN'T BE PART OF THIS TRIAL, SO IT SEEMS TO ME THAT I CAN BRING OUT, WHILE HE IS HERE, THAT HE DID RECOVER A KNIFE AT SOME POINT.
HE CALLED A PARTICULAR OFFICER WHO RECOVERED THE KNIFE. WE ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO INTRODUCE THAT KNIFE. AND I JUST WANT TO BRING OUT THE FACT THAT HE DID IN FACT, AS A SPECIAL MASTER, RECOVER THE KNIFE EARLIER.
THE COURT HAS DISCRETION TO DETERMINE THE OFFER -- THE ORDER OF PROOF, AND I THINK IT WOULD BE AT THIS POINT COMPLETELY OUT OF LOGICAL ORDER TO GO INTO THOSE ISSUES NOW, SO I'M GOING TO SUSTAIN THE OBJECTION. JUDGE WONG IS AVAILABLE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE TO ANY OF THE PARTIES DURING THE COURSE OF THEIR PRESENTATION OF THE CASE. THE OBJECTION IS SUSTAINED.
BRING HIM BACK WHEN IT IS OUR PART OF THE CASE. THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE SAYING TO ME?
I KNOW HOW MR. COCHRAN LIKES TO PLAY TO THE PUBLIC ON THESE ISSUES.
THE CORONER TESTED THIS PARTICULAR KNIFE FROM ROSS CUTLERY AND COMPARED IT WITH THE WOUND AND FOUND IT WAS CONSISTENT WITH THE WOUND. THE FACT THAT THEY FIND OUT NOW THAT IT WAS A THEORY THAT DIDN'T WORK DOESN'T MEAN IT CAN'T BE PART OF THIS TRIAL.
DON'T TRY TO USE US.
I THINK IT WOULD BE AT THIS POINT COMPLETELY OUT OF LOGICAL ORDER TO GO INTO THOSE ISSUES NOW, SO I'M GOING TO SUSTAIN THE OBJECTION.