Opening remarks

📄 Opening remarks — Thursday, March 30, 1995

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TRIAL

▲ Day 48 of 167

◀ Motion: DNA evidence admissibility Motion: discovery violations ▶

Date: Thursday, March 30, 1995 • Utterances: 9

Judge Ito opens a brief session to set the agenda, noting that written rulings on the Kelly issue and cross-examination scope will be filed Monday. Barry Scheck requests an in camera presentation at some point and asks about proceeding with a tape, but the judge redirects to discovery issues first.

# 1 THE COURT:

ALL RIGHT. BACK ON THE RECORD IN THE SIMPSON MATTER. THE DEFENDANT IS AGAIN PRESENT WITH HIS SECOND SET OF ATTORNEYS. THE PEOPLE ARE READY WITH THEIR THIRD SET OF ATTORNEYS.

# 2 MS. LEWIS:

THIRD STRING, YOUR HONOR.

KEY QUOTE

# 3 THE COURT:

ALL RIGHT. THERE WAS ONE OTHER DISCOVERY ISSUE -- JUST AS TO THE OTHER TWO ISSUES, THE COURT ANTICIPATES ISSUING A WRITTEN RULING REGARDING THE KELLY ISSUE REGARDING THE SCOPE OF CROSS-EXAMINATION ISSUE. AND WE HAD A DISCOVERY ISSUE ALSO TO TAKE UP. AND I ANTICIPATE FILING THAT MONDAY.

# 4 MR. SCHECK:

YES, AND --

# 5 THE COURT:

AS TO BOTH.

# 6 MR. SCHECK:

BEFORE WE FINISH, WE CAN HAVE SOME LIMITED PRESENTATIONS IN CHAMBERS IN CAMERA? THERE WAS -- AT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE ARGUMENT WE MADE REFERENCE TO THINGS THAT WE WANT TO PRESENT TO THE COURT IN THAT FASHION.

# 7 THE COURT:

YES.

# 8 MR. SCHECK:

SHOULD I PROCEED WITH THE TAPE?

# 9 THE COURT:

ALL RIGHT. LET'S GO AS TO THE DISCOVERY ISSUES, HOWEVER, FIRST.

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (2)

Cheri Lewis

THIRD STRING, YOUR HONOR.

Dry quip in response to Ito noting the People are on their third set of attorneys — a rare moment of levity acknowledging the personnel churn in this litigation.

Lance A. Ito

THE DEFENDANT IS AGAIN PRESENT WITH HIS SECOND SET OF ATTORNEYS. THE PEOPLE ARE READY WITH THEIR THIRD SET OF ATTORNEYS.

Unusual judicial acknowledgment of how many attorney teams have cycled through this case.

Notable Exchanges (1)

Barry Scheck•Lance A. Ito

Scheck requests limited in camera presentations for matters referenced during argument, and asks whether to proceed with a tape; Ito agrees to the in camera request but steers to discovery issues first.

procedural

Light Moments (1)

Cheri Lewis

Lewis quips 'third string' in response to Ito's count of attorney teams, getting a dry acknowledgment from the bench.

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 5513 • 9 utterances

Criminal Trial

Department 103