Cross-examination of Tom Lange (afternoon, part 3)

📄 Cross-examination of Tom Lange (afternoon, part 3) — Monday, March 6, 1995

Address:

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TRIAL

▲ Day 31 of 167

◀ Sidebar (2) Sidebar: envelope and photographs ▶

Witness: Det. Tom Lange
Examiner: Johnnie Cochran
Called by: Prosecution • Date: Monday, March 6, 1995 • Utterances: 8

A brief procedural moment in the cross-examination of Detective Tom Lange in which Cochran notes that the physical envelope containing glasses is unavailable and moves to mark a photograph of it as Defense exhibit 1047. The session ends with the prosecution requesting an off-record sidebar with the reporter.

# 1 (DISCUSSION HELD OFF THE RECORD BETWEEN THE DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND JUDITHA BROWN.)

# 2 THE COURT:

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, COUNSEL. MR. COCHRAN.

# 3 MR. COCHRAN:

THANK YOU, YOUR HONOR. YOUR HONOR, I UNDERSTAND THAT THE ENVELOPE CONTAINING THE GLASSES ARE NOT HERE TODAY. SO IN THAT CONNECTION, I'M PROBABLY GOING TO HAVE TO MARK AS A PHOTOGRAPH OF WHAT PURPORTS TO BE THE ENVELOPE, SHOW THIS TO DETECTIVE LANGE, YOUR HONOR.

# 4 THE COURT:

ALL RIGHT. DEFENSE NEXT IN ORDER IS 1047.

# 5 MR. COCHRAN:

1047.

# 6 (DEFT'S 1047 FOR ID = PHOTOGRAPH)

# 7

(DISCUSSION HELD OFF THE RECORD BETWEEN THE DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEYS.) MS. CLARK: MAY WE APPROACH, YOUR HONOR, WITH THE REPORTER?

# 8 THE COURT:

ALL RIGHT. WITH THE REPORTER, PLEASE.

Temperature

procedural

Key Quotes (1)

Johnnie Cochran

I UNDERSTAND THAT THE ENVELOPE CONTAINING THE GLASSES ARE NOT HERE TODAY. SO IN THAT CONNECTION, I'M PROBABLY GOING TO HAVE TO MARK AS A PHOTOGRAPH OF WHAT PURPORTS TO BE THE ENVELOPE

Signals that the defense is pursuing a line of questioning about an envelope and glasses — likely the glasses found at the Bundy crime scene — but is impeded by the absence of the physical evidence.

Evidence (2)

Defense 1047

Photograph of an envelope purportedly containing glasses

marked for identification as substitute for absent physical evidence

Informal

Envelope containing glasses (physical item)

noted as absent from court

Notable Exchanges (1)

Johnnie Cochran•Lance A. Ito

Cochran advises the court the physical envelope is unavailable and seeks to substitute a photograph; Ito assigns it exhibit number 1047 without objection.

routine

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 5152 • 8 utterances • Prosecution witness

Criminal Trial

Department 103