📄 Morning session opening — Thursday, March 9, 1995
📅 Mar 9 — Day 34
⚖️ Lance A. Ito🏛️ Marcia Clark
jury
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TRIAL
▲ Day 34 of 167

Morning session opening

Date: Thursday, March 9, 1995 • Utterances: 17
Brief opening proceedings before resuming Detective Lange's testimony. Marcia Clark apologized for being late due to an urgent matter, and Judge Ito made light of it by joking about cold and flu season. The jury was then brought in.
1 (JANET M. MOXHAM, CSR NO. 4855, OFFICIAL REPORTER.)
2 (CHRISTINE M. OLSON, CSR NO. 2378, OFFICIAL REPORTER.)
3 (PAGES 17939 THROUGH 17951, VOLUME 102A, TRANSCRIBED AND SEALED UNDER SEPARATE COVER.)
4 (THE FOLLOWING PROCEEDINGS WERE HELD IN OPEN COURT, OUT OF THE PRESENCE OF THE JURY:)
5 MS. CLARK:

MAY I APOLOGIZE TO THE COURT? I HAD A VERY URGENT, SERIOUS MATTER COME UP THIS MORNING.

6 THE COURT:

I WAITED.

7 MS. CLARK:

I'M SORRY?

8 THE COURT:

I WAITED. THERE'S A COLD SEASON GOING AROUND.

9 MS. CLARK:

I AM SORRY?

10 THE COURT:

THERE'S A COLD AND FLU SEASON GOING AROUND.

11 MS. CLARK:

OH, YES. ONLY MY HOUSE.

12 THE COURT:

GOOD MORNING. BACK ON THE RECORD IN THE SIMPSON MATTER. THE DEFENDANT IS AGAIN PRESENT WITH HIS COUNSEL, MR. SHAPIRO, MR. COCHRAN, MR. DOUGLAS, MR. BAILEY, PEOPLE REPRESENTED BY MISS CLARK, MR. DARDEN, MISS LEWIS. THE JURY IS NOT PRESENT. COUNSEL, IS THERE ANYTHING WE NEED TO ADDRESS BEFORE WE INVITE THE JURORS TO JOIN US FOR THE CONCLUSION OF DETECTIVE LANGE'S TESTIMONY? I THINK DETECTIVE LANGE ANTICIPATES RETIRING ONE OF THESE DAYS.

13 MS. CLARK:

I THINK HE WANTS TO KEEP GOING. HE'S SO USED TO IT, HE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO GO BACK TO RHD.

KEY QUOTE
14 THE COURT:

ALL RIGHT. LET'S START. DEPUTY MAGNERA, LET'S HAVE THE JURORS, PLEASE.

15 (THE FOLLOWING PROCEEDINGS WERE HELD IN OPEN COURT, IN THE PRESENCE OF THE JURY:)
16 MR. COCHRAN:

MAY WE APPROACH, YOUR HONOR, WITH THE REPORTER?

17 THE COURT:

THANK YOU, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. BE SEATED.

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (2)

Lance A. Ito
I THINK DETECTIVE LANGE ANTICIPATES RETIRING ONE OF THESE DAYS.
Dry judicial humor about the length of Lange's ongoing testimony.
Marcia Clark
I THINK HE WANTS TO KEEP GOING. HE'S SO USED TO IT, HE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO GO BACK TO RHD.
Clark plays along, referencing Lange's home division (Robbery-Homicide Division).

Notable Exchanges (1)

Lance A. ItoMarcia Clark
Clark apologized for being late; Ito deflected with a joke about the cold and flu season going around.
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Light Moments (1)

Lance A. Ito
Ito joked that 'there's a cold and flu season going around' when Clark apologized for being late, and quipped that Detective Lange 'anticipates retiring one of these days' given the length of his testimony.

Objections

None recorded
Proceeding 5235 • 17 utterances
Criminal Trial
Department 103
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