Sidebar: jury member's pin

📄 Sidebar: jury member's pin — Thursday, March 9, 1995

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TRIAL

▲ Day 34 of 167

◀ Morning session opening Recross-examination of Tom Lange (part 1) ▶

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

Cochran briefly approached the bench to flag that a female juror was wearing an angel pin in violation of a prior court order. The juror was already removing it by the time the sidebar occurred. Ito acknowledged the violation and thanked Cochran.

# 1 (THE FOLLOWING PROCEEDINGS WERE HELD AT THE BENCH:)

# 2 THE COURT:

MR. COCHRAN.

# 3 MR. COCHRAN:

JUDGE, THERE'S A YOUNG LADY WHOSE TAKING IT OFF NOW, WEARING THAT PIN, ANGEL PIN. I WANTED TO HAVE HER TAKE THAT PIN OFF.

KEY QUOTE

# 4 THE COURT:

THAT'S WHAT IT WAS?

# 5 MR. COCHRAN:

YES.

# 6 THE COURT:

THAT'S THE ONLY REASON WE'RE HERE?

KEY QUOTE

# 7 MR. COCHRAN:

THAT'S WHY WE ARE HERE. IT'S A VIOLATION OF YOUR ORDER, ISN'T IT?

# 8 THE COURT:

YES. THANK YOU.

# 9 MR. COCHRAN:

ALL RIGHT.

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (3)

Johnnie Cochran

THERE'S A YOUNG LADY WHOSE TAKING IT OFF NOW, WEARING THAT PIN, ANGEL PIN. I WANTED TO HAVE HER TAKE THAT PIN OFF.

Cochran self-polices the courtroom, flagging the violation while noting it was already being corrected.

Johnnie Cochran

IT'S A VIOLATION OF YOUR ORDER, ISN'T IT?

Cochran explicitly frames the pin as a court order violation, creating a record.

Lance A. Ito

THAT'S THE ONLY REASON WE'RE HERE?

Ito's mild surprise at the brevity of the matter.

Notable Exchanges (1)

Johnnie Cochran•Lance A. Ito

Cochran raises the angel pin issue; Ito confirms it was a violation and thanks him. The whole exchange is resolved in seconds.

procedural

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 5236 • 9 utterances

Criminal Trial

Department 103