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📄 Back on record — Monday, March 6, 1995

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TRIAL

▲ Day 31 of 167

◀ Cross-examination of Tom Lange (afternoon, part 7) Cross-examination of Tom Lange (afternoon, part 8) ▶

Date: Monday, March 6, 1995 • Utterances: 7

Court reconvenes after a bomb scare in the building forced evacuation of two floors and halted the elevators, causing a delay in resuming the afternoon session. Judge Ito explains the situation to the jury and allows spectators to trickle in quietly due to the unusual circumstances. Detective Tom Lange is about to resume his testimony.

# 1 THE COURT:

BACK ON THE RECORD IN THE SIMPSON MATTER. THE DEFENDANT IS PRESENT WITH COUNSEL, MR. COCHRAN, MR. SHAPIRO, MR. BAILEY. MR. COCHRAN, ARE YOU PREPARED TO GO FORWARD?

# 2 MR. COCHRAN:

I AM PREPARED TO GO FORWARD, YOUR HONOR. PROBABLY AT SOME POINT I'M GOING TO NEED MR. HARRIS FOR THE ELMO, ET CETERA, BUT I CAN GO FORWARD.

# 3 THE COURT:

ALL RIGHT.

# 4 MR. COCHRAN:

I GUESS I PRESUME THEY ARE ALL LOCKED OUT OF THE BUILDING.

# 5 THE COURT:

WELL, WE HAVE MR. FAIRTLOUGH.

# 6 MR. DARDEN:

JUDGE, THE WREATH, CAN WE HAVE THIS REMOVED? (BRIEF PAUSE.)

# 7 THE COURT:

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. BE SEATED. AND DEPUTY BROWNING, AS THE SPECTATORS WANDER IN, YOU CAN LET THEM IN, BUT ADMONISH THEM TO BE QUIET. ALL RIGHT. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MY APOLOGIES TO YOU FOR THE DELAY IN GETTING STARTED. WE HAD A BOMB SCARE DOWN ON THE BOTTOM FLOOR AND THE SHERIFFS AND THE LAPD HAD TO EVACUATE TWO OF THE FLOORS, THEY HAD TO STOP ALL OF THE ELEVATORS. THIS IS A DAY WE STARTED OUT, THINGS WERE GOING SO WELL, AND NATURALLY SOMETHING HAD TO HAPPEN, SO THAT IS THE REASON FOR THE DELAY. THE BUILDING HAS BEEN SECURE, IT IS NOT A PROBLEM, AND WE ARE READY TO PROCEED AND AS SPECTATORS TRICKLE IN THERE WILL BE A LITTLE MORE DISRUPTION THAN NORMAL, BECAUSE NORMALLY WHEN WE START THE COURT SESSION NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO ENTER THE COURTROOM, BUT BECAUSE OF THE LATE START, I'M GOING TO LET PEOPLE WANDER IN ON SCOUT'S HONOR THAT THEY WILL BE QUIET, THAT THEY DO SO.

TOM LANGE, THE WITNESS ON THE STAND AT THE TIME OF THE NOON RECESS, RESUMED THE STAND AND TESTIFIED FURTHER AS FOLLOWS:

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (2)

Lance A. Ito

WE HAD A BOMB SCARE DOWN ON THE BOTTOM FLOOR AND THE SHERIFFS AND THE LAPD HAD TO EVACUATE TWO OF THE FLOORS, THEY HAD TO STOP ALL OF THE ELEVATORS.

Explains the unusual delay to the jury; notable that the high-profile trial attracted security threats

Lance A. Ito

THIS IS A DAY WE STARTED OUT, THINGS WERE GOING SO WELL, AND NATURALLY SOMETHING HAD TO HAPPEN

Rare moment of dry humor from Ito, showing personality to the jury

Notable Exchanges (1)

Christopher Darden•Lance A. Ito

Darden requests a wreath be removed from the courtroom before jury enters

procedural

Light Moments (1)

Lance A. Ito

Ito jokes that the day had been going so well before the bomb scare intervened, with self-deprecating awareness of the trial's chaos

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 5173 • 7 utterances

Criminal Trial

Department 103