📄 Court reopens — Friday, March 3, 1995
📅 Mar 3 — Day 30
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▲ Day 30 of 167

Court reopens

Date: Friday, March 3, 1995 • Utterances: 10
A brief pause at the start of a court session while Christopher Darden stepped out for a moment to confer with colleagues. Johnnie Cochran made a light remark about flowers being delivered to defense team members, including Robert Kardashian, before the judge directed proceedings to continue.
1 (THE FOLLOWING PROCEEDINGS WERE HELD IN OPEN COURT:)
2 MR. DARDEN:

JUDGE, CAN I HAVE ONE MOMENT BEFORE WE START?

3 (DISCUSSION HELD OFF THE RECORD BETWEEN DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND DEFENSE COUNSEL.)
4 MR. DARDEN:

CAN I STEP OUT FOR ONE MOMENT?

5 MR. COCHRAN:

EVERYBODY IS GETTING FLOWERS, YOUR HONOR. MR. KARDASHIAN GOT SOME TODAY.

KEY QUOTE
6 (BRIEF PAUSE.)
7 THE COURT:

ALL RIGHT. MISS CLARK, WOULD YOU CHECK THAT OUT THEN FOR US, PLEASE.

8 (DISCUSSION HELD OFF THE RECORD BETWEEN THE DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEYS.)
9 THE COURT:

THANK YOU. MR. COCHRAN, WOULD YOU CONTINUE, PLEASE.

10 MR. COCHRAN:

THANK YOU VERY KINDLY, YOUR HONOR.

Temperature

light

Key Quotes (1)

Johnnie Cochran
EVERYBODY IS GETTING FLOWERS, YOUR HONOR. MR. KARDASHIAN GOT SOME TODAY.
Rare glimpse of informal courtroom banter; humanizes the defense table during a brief recess moment.

Light Moments (1)

Johnnie Cochran
Cochran comments that everyone on the defense side is receiving flowers, noting Robert Kardashian received some that day.

Objections

None recorded
Proceeding 5139 • 10 utterances
Criminal Trial
Department 103
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